osteria
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian osteria. Doublet of hostry.
Noun edit
osteria (plural osterias or osterie)
- A small local restaurant in Italy.
- 2015 August 13, Robert Draper, “In Italy, Hiking and Haute Cuisine in the Dolomites”, in New York Times[1]:
- And though the standard fare at the mountain osterias known as rifugios largely remains slabs of speck and strong local cheese, there are exceptions — most notably Col Alt, a rifugio above Corvara accessible only by ski lift, where meat dishes take the form of succulent venison or rabbit, and bottles of aged Barolo offer a noble complement to the soaring mountain vistas.
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Finnish edit
Noun edit
osteria
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Italian edit
Etymology edit
From oste + -eria, from Old French oste (“innkeeper, host”).
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ia
Noun edit
osteria f (plural osterie)
- inn
- barrelhouse
- bistro
- tavern
- osteria (small restaurant in the countryside)
Descendants edit
Interjection edit
osteria
- (euphemistic) expletive, often used to replace the mildly blasphemous expletive ostia (“Host, Communion wafer”); blimey!
- gee
Further reading edit
- osteria in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana