a room, hall, or building where food is served or sold: a cafeteria, canteen, buffet, dining room, dining hall, eatery, restaurant, refectory
köken: /d͡ʑikidoː/ → /ɕokudoː/ Shift from older reading jikidō (“refectory in a Buddhist temple”). In the Meiji period, the pronunciation shifted to using the kan'on reading of shoku for 食 as the sense expanded to indicate dining facilities in a dormitory, and from there, to any larger room for serving or selling food to multiple people. First attested in 1903.
dining hall, canteen (small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment or place of work as well as educational centres like schools and universities).
köken: Etymology tree Latin cēnō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin cēnātiō From cēnō (“to dine, eat dinner”) + -tiō.