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Italian
Etymology
From s- + padella + -are.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spa.delˈla.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: spa‧del‧là‧re
Verb
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This Italian verb needs to be reviewed and cleaned up.
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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).
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spadellàre (first-person singular present spadèllo, first-person singular past historic spadellài, past participle spadellàto, auxiliary avére)
- (intransitive) to busy oneself with cooking (with pots and pans)
- Synonym: (colloquial) spignattare
- (cooking, transitive) to flip in a frying pan while sauteing it
- (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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