[1] In Italy, the word cantina refers to a room below the ground level where wine and other products such as salami are stored.
[5] This wine-cellar covered with a face; This wine-harvest [clad] in filthy habit; This wine-skin, which, with just a sip, Is happy to exchange it for a [whole] vat.
In rural Mexico, a cantina traditionally is a kind of bar frequented by males for drinking alcohol and eating botanas (appetizers).
[8]Specifically In the musseques (Rural Areas) a cantina traditionally is a corner shop or bar frequented by the locals where they drink alcohol and eat petiscos (appetizers).
In the 1890s, cantina entered American English from the Spanish language in the Southwest United States with the meaning of "bar room, saloon".