antipasto

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian antipasto ( before the meal).

Pronunciation

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Noun

antipasto (plural antipastos or antipasti)

  1. An Italian starter for a meal; normally a cold assortment of salami, cheese, seafood, and vegetables.
    • 2009, Nicholas Belfrage, The Finest Wines of Tuscany and Central Italy, →ISBN, page 312:
      The antipasto often features fettunta—thin slices of Tuscan bread toasted and salted (the bread itself is unsalted) and perhaps rubbed with garlic (you may prefer to rub it on for yourself, or not if you're due to discuss Uganda or have an interview with Silvio Berlusconi)

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Finnish

Etymology

From Italian antipasto.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑntipɑsto/,
  • Rhymes: -ɑsto
  • Hyphenation(key): an‧ti‧pas‧to

Noun

antipasto

  1. antipasto

Declension

Inflection of antipasto (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative antipasto antipastot
genitive antipaston antipastojen
partitive antipastoa antipastoja
illative antipastoon antipastoihin
singular plural
nominative antipasto antipastot
accusative nom. antipasto antipastot
gen. antipaston
genitive antipaston antipastojen
partitive antipastoa antipastoja
inessive antipastossa antipastoissa
elative antipastosta antipastoista
illative antipastoon antipastoihin
adessive antipastolla antipastoilla
ablative antipastolta antipastoilta
allative antipastolle antipastoille
essive antipastona antipastoina
translative antipastoksi antipastoiksi
abessive antipastotta antipastoitta
instructive antipastoin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of antipasto (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)

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Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian antipasto (literally before the meal).

Noun

antipasto

  1. (cooking) antipasto: an Italian starter for a meal; normally a cold assortment of salami, cheese, seafood and vegetables.

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

From anti- (prior to, before) +‎ pasto (meal).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /an.tiˈpa.sto/
  • Rhymes: -asto
  • Hyphenation: an‧ti‧pà‧sto

Noun

antipasto m (plural antipasti)

  1. starter, hors d'oeuvre, appetizer, antipasto
    Synonym: (in the plural) principio

See also

Further reading

  • antipasto in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • antipasto in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • antipasto in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • antipasto in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • antipasto in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
  • antipasto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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