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mortadella

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.71 in modern English

Syllables
mor-tadel-la
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A smooth-textured Italian pork sausage with lumps of fat, flavoured with spices; eaten cold.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Italian mortadella, from diminutive of Latin murtatum (“sausage seasoned with myrtle berries”), from myrtatum, from myrtus, from Ancient Greek μύρτος (múrtos).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: mortadella, murtatum, μύρτος

Usage

Inflected Forms

mortadellas (plural) mortadelle (plural)

Synonyms

baloney boloney Bologna sausage bologna

Rhymes With

venezuela umbrella vanilla bella stella ella fella cinderella hella coachella mozzarella salmonella

Questions

What does mortadella mean?
A smooth-textured Italian pork sausage with lumps of fat, flavoured with spices; eaten cold.
Where does mortadella come from?
It is traced to Italian.

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