gelati

English

Etymology

A borrowing from Italian.

Noun

gelati (usually uncountable; plural gelati)

1. (Australia, countable, uncountable) Italian-style ice-cream; a serving of gelati, often in a cone.
   • 1988, Frank Moorhouse (editor), Fictions 88, ABC Enterprises for the Australian Broadcast Corp., page 64,

     Out in Fitzroy Street, the Saturday afternoon crowds strolled the wide footpaths, licking gelati.

   • 1993, University of Western Australia, Westerly, Volumes 38-39, page 37,

     Gelati. Gelati. Limone, Strawberry, Chocolaty! shouts the Gelati man from the south of his face.

   • 2008, Catherine McKinnon, The Nearly Happy Family, unnumbered page,

     ‘Would you kids like some gelati?’ Lucia asked. […] At home we usually had Peter′s Rainbow, but we′d had gelati heaps of times at Flash, the gelati shop in Hindley Street.

Anagrams

• aiglet, ligate

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Italian

Adjective

gelati m

1. Plural form of gelato

Noun

gelati m

1. Plural form of gelato

Anagrams

• legati, taglie, teglia

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Latin

Participle

gelātī

1. nominative masculine plural of gelātus
2. genitive masculine singular of gelātus
3. genitive neuter singular of gelātus
4. vocative masculine plural of gelātus