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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian antipasto (“ before the meal”).
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Noun
antipasto (plural antipastos or antipasti)
- 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)
Translations
Italian starter for a meal
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Finnish
Etymology
From Italian antipasto.
Pronunciation
Noun
antipasto
- antipasto
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Indonesian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Italian antipasto (literally “before the meal”).
Noun
antipasto
- (cooking) antipasto: an Italian starter for a meal; normally a cold assortment of salami, cheese, seafood and vegetables.
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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)
- 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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