spadellare

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Italian

Etymology

From s- +‎ padella +‎ -are.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spa.delˈla.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: spa‧del‧là‧re

Verb

This Italian verb needs to be reviewed and cleaned up.
The definition(s) may be wrong or misleading, and important senses may be missing. The specified auxiliary may also be wrong. The remainder of the conjugation is probably correct for -are verbs but may be wrong in some particulars for -ire verbs (especially the present participle).

spadellàre (first-person singular present spadèllo, first-person singular past historic spadellài, past participle spadellàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (intransitive) to busy oneself with cooking (with pots and pans)
    Synonym: (colloquial) spignattare
  2. (cooking, transitive) to flip in a frying pan while sauteing it
  3. (hunting slang, transitive, intransitive) to miss
    Synonym: (uncommon) padellare

Usage notes

  • The past participle spadellato, used relationally in the name of a dish, refers to a method of cooking where the food is first sautéed and then finished off at a lower temperature.

Conjugation

Further reading

  • Anna Del Conte (2013) “padella”, in Gastronomy of Italy, revised edition, Pavilion, →ISBN, page 260.
  • spadellare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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