al dente
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian al dente (literally “to the tooth”).
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al dente (comparative more al dente, superlative most al dente)
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- Also used adverbially.
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firm
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Borrowed from Italian al dente.
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al dente
German edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian al dente.
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al dente (indeclinable)
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Italian edit
Etymology edit
Literally, “to the tooth”.
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Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Italian al dente.
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al dente (not comparable, no derived adverb)
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Further reading edit
- “al dente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014