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Italian
Etymology
From minestrare (“to serve, prepare (as in soup)”), from Latin ministrāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miˈnɛ.stra/
- Rhymes: -ɛstra
- Hyphenation: mi‧nè‧stra
Noun
minestra f (plural minestre, diminutive minestrìna, augmentative minestróne, pejorative minestráccia or minestrùccia)
- soup
- pasta (boiled and eaten with a sauce)
- Synonyms: pasta asciutta, pastasciutta
Usage notes
- In the Italian culinary tradition of a multi-course dinner this is usually the first course (not counting antipasto, if any). As a soup, it tends to be lighter than zuppa and with smaller pieces than minestrone.
- In most settings just ”minestra” will be understood to be a soup-like dish, but the term is also used to refer to minestra asciutta, which is a pasta dish.
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Further reading
- minestra in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- minestra in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- minestra in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- minestra in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- minèstra in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- minèstra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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