pepperoni

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See also: pepperóní

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian peperone (bell pepper).

Pronunciation

Noun

pepperoni (countable and uncountable, plural pepperonis or pepperoni)

  1. A spicy salami-style Italian-American sausage made from cured pork and beef seasoned with pepper.
    • 2006, George Galjan, Cops, Donuts, and Murder, page 107:
      He gave the dog a treat — a dried up skinny, turdy looking, pepperoni sausage.
    • 2019 September 5, Aisha Harris, “‘Jinn’ Review: A Not So Typical Coming-of-Age Story”, in The New York Times:
      She and her two best friends are choreographing a number for the talent show; she’s applied to California Institute of the Arts; and she flirts unabashedly with a cute pizza server. (The better to land a couple of extra pepperonis on her slice without an upcharge.)
  2. Pizza with only tomato sauce, cheese and pepperoni toppings.
    Yo, Tony, gimme a slice of pepperoni and a coke.
    • 2023 September 6, Luke Winkie, “Our Greatest Fast-Food Joint Is Costco”, in Slate, archived from the original on 6 September 2023:
      There's far more than just hot dogs to feast on too. The pizzas—gigantic, floppy, with a hyperreal waxy sheen—are mythic. They arrive exclusively in cheese, pepperoni, or supreme—the holy trinity—and will run you an eminently affordable $1.99 for a ridiculously huge wedge-shaped slice.

Hypernyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Finnish: pepperoni
  • French: pepperoni
  • Icelandic: pepperóní
  • Polish: pepperoni

Translations

Finnish

Etymology

English pepperoni, from Italian peperone (bell pepper). The sense "chili" probably after German Peperoni.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpepːeroni/,
  • Rhymes: -oni
  • Hyphenation(key): pep‧pe‧ro‧ni

Noun

pepperoni

  1. pepperoni (sausage)
  2. pepperoni (pizza)
  3. A type of longish, relatively mild, pickled, yellowish green chili, often served as condiment to doner kebab.

Declension

Inflection of pepperoni (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative pepperoni pepperonit
genitive pepperonin pepperonien
partitive pepperonia pepperoneja
illative pepperoniin pepperoneihin
singular plural
nominative pepperoni pepperonit
accusative nom. pepperoni pepperonit
gen. pepperonin
genitive pepperonin pepperonien
partitive pepperonia pepperoneja
inessive pepperonissa pepperoneissa
elative pepperonista pepperoneista
illative pepperoniin pepperoneihin
adessive pepperonilla pepperoneilla
ablative pepperonilta pepperoneilta
allative pepperonille pepperoneille
essive pepperonina pepperoneina
translative pepperoniksi pepperoneiksi
abessive pepperonitta pepperoneitta
instructive pepperonein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of pepperoni (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

Further reading

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English pepperoni.

Noun

pepperoni m (plural pepperonis)

  1. pepperoni (sausage)
  2. pepperoni (pizza)

Hypernyms

Polish

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pepperoni

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pepperoni.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛ.pɛˈrɔ.ɲi/
  • Rhymes: -ɔɲi
  • Syllabification: pe‧ppe‧ro‧ni

Noun

pepperoni n (indeclinable)

  1. pepperoni (spicy salami-style Italian-American sausage made from cured pork and beef seasoned with pepper)
    Hypernym: salami
  2. pepperoni (pizza with only tomato sauce, cheese, and pepperoni toppings)
  3. peperoncino, friggitello (sweet Italian chili pepper of the species Capsicum annuum)

Further reading

  • pepperoni in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • pepperoni in Polish dictionaries at PWN