mozzarella
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian mozzarella, from mozzare (“to cut off”), from Latin mutilare.
The meaning of money derives from the early Bay Area hip-hop scene since early and is found for various food terms, including cheddar and cheese.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /mɒt.sə.ˈɹɛl.ə/
- (US) IPA(key): /mɑt.sə.ˈɹɛl.ə/, less commonly IPA(key): /mʌt.sə.ˈɹɛl.ə/, /mut.sə.ˈɹɛl.ə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛlə
Noun edit
mozzarella (countable and uncountable, plural mozzarellas or mozzarelle)
- Soft Italian cheese made from cow's or buffalo's milk and commonly used as a pizza topping and in salads etc.
- (uncountable, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:money
- 2017 November 16, KirbLaGoop (lyrics and music), “I Can’t Feel My Face”, in Trapped in Da 100:
- Ooh, yeah, stack that mozzarella, check a big bag / Smack it for an hour, off a thirty, let a bitch bad
- 2018 November 25, “Bank Teller”, Lil Uzi Vert (lyrics), Lil Uzi Vert, Smokepurpp, and Lil Pump (music)[1]:
- Me no rat, I get hella cheddar, I get mozzarella / Take two hundred thousand out the bank ’cause I fucked the teller
- 2018 November 25, “Bank Teller”, Smokepurpp (lyrics), Lil Uzi Vert, Smokepurpp, and Lil Pump (music)[2]:
- Tell a bank teller / This Louis my sweater / Came through with a Baretta / Stack my cheese, that mozzarella
- 2019 September 13, “Diamond Tester”, in ChaseTheMoney (lyrics), K$upreme & ChaseTheMoney (music), Caught Fire[3]:
- I need the cheese, mozzarella / Rainin outside, I got a Louis umbrella / She ate up my dick like Nutella / I used to be four-fourin at the bank
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Czech edit
Noun edit
mozzarella f
- mozzarella (soft Italian cheese)
Declension edit
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Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mozzarella
- mozzarella (type of cheese)
Declension edit
Inflection of mozzarella (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | mozzarella | mozzarellat | ||
genitive | mozzarellan | mozzarellojen | ||
partitive | mozzarellaa | mozzarelloja | ||
illative | mozzarellaan | mozzarelloihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | mozzarella | mozzarellat | ||
accusative | nom. | mozzarella | mozzarellat | |
gen. | mozzarellan | |||
genitive | mozzarellan | mozzarellojen mozzarellainrare | ||
partitive | mozzarellaa | mozzarelloja | ||
inessive | mozzarellassa | mozzarelloissa | ||
elative | mozzarellasta | mozzarelloista | ||
illative | mozzarellaan | mozzarelloihin | ||
adessive | mozzarellalla | mozzarelloilla | ||
ablative | mozzarellalta | mozzarelloilta | ||
allative | mozzarellalle | mozzarelloille | ||
essive | mozzarellana | mozzarelloina | ||
translative | mozzarellaksi | mozzarelloiksi | ||
abessive | mozzarellatta | mozzarelloitta | ||
instructive | — | mozzarelloin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Diminutive of mozza (“a type of cheese”), related to the verb mozzare. Originally of southern Italian origin; cf. Neapolitan muzzarella.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mozzarella f (plural mozzarelle)
- mozzarella (soft Italian cheese)
Related terms edit
See also edit
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Italian mozzarella.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mozzarella f
- mozzarella (soft Italian cheese)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | mozzarella | mozzarelle |
genitive | mozzarelli | mozzarelli |
dative | mozzarelli | mozzarellom |
accusative | mozzarellę | mozzarelle |
instrumental | mozzarellą | mozzarellami |
locative | mozzarelli | mozzarellach |
vocative | mozzarello | mozzarelle |
Further reading edit
- mozzarella in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- mozzarella in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese edit
Noun edit
mozzarella f (plural mozzarellas)
- Alternative form of mussarela
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Italian mozzarella.
Noun edit
mozzarella f (uncountable)
- mozzarella (soft Italian cheese)
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Italian mozzarella.
Noun edit
mozzarella f (plural mozzarellas)
- mozzarella (soft Italian cheese)
- Synonym: (Argentina) musarela
Usage notes edit
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading edit
- “mozzarella”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
mozzarella c
- mozzarella
- Synonym: mozzarellaost
Declension edit
Declension of mozzarella | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | mozzarella | mozzarellan | — | — |
Genitive | mozzarellas | mozzarellans | — | — |