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naporitan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
na-por-i-tan
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Japanese dish styled on Neapolitan food; spaghetti topped with ketchup or tomato sauce, onion, button mushrooms, green peppers, bacon and Tabasco sauce.

Uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ナポリタン (naporitan), from French napolitain (“Neapolitan”), from Latin neāpolītānus, from Neāpolis (“Naples”), from Ancient Greek Νεᾱ́πολῐς (Neā́polĭs). Doublet of Neapolitan.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: napolitain, neāpolītānus, Νεᾱ́πολῐς

Usage

Inflected Forms

napolitan (alternative)

Questions

What does naporitan mean?
A Japanese dish styled on Neapolitan food; spaghetti topped with ketchup or tomato sauce, onion, button mushrooms, green peppers, bacon and Tabasco sauce.
Where does naporitan come from?
It is traced to French.

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