ricotta

See also: Ricotta

English

Vincenzo Campi, The Ricotta Eaters, 1580, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon.

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ricotta (literally “cooked again”), from Latin recocta.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkɒtə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkɑtə/, /ɹəˈkɑtə/
• Rhymes: -ɒtə

Noun

ricotta (countable and uncountable, plural ricottas)

1. A soft Italian unsalted whey cheese resembling cottage cheese.

Translations

Italian whey cheese

• Arabic: رِيكُوتَّا f (rīkūttā), جُبْن رِيكُوتَّا m (jubn rīkūttā)
• Armenian: ռիկոտա (ṙikota)
• Azerbaijani: rikotta
• Belarusian: рыко́та f (rykóta)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鄉村芝士／乡村芝士 (hoeng¹ cyun¹ zi¹ si^6-2)

  Mandarin: 里考塔 (lǐkǎotǎ)

• Chuvash: рикота (rik̬ot̬a)
• Czech: ricotta f
• Dutch: ricotta (nl) m
• Esperanto: rikoto
• Finnish: ricotta (fi)
• French: ricotta (fr) f
• German: Ricotta (de) m

  Alemannic German: Ricotta m

• Hebrew: רִיקוֹטָה (he) f (rikóta)
• Italian: ricotta (it) f
• Japanese: リコッタ (rikotta)
• Korean: 리코타 (rikota)
• Maltese: rkotta f
• Persian: ریکوتا (rikotâ)
• Polish: ricotta (pl) f
• Portuguese: (Portugal, Brazil) requeijão (pt) m, (Brazil) ricota (pt) f
• Russian: рико́тта (ru) f (rikótta)
• Sicilian: ricotta f
• Slovak: rikota f
• Spanish: requesón (es) m, (Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela) ricota (es) f
• Swedish: ricotta (sv) c
• Thai: ริคอตต้า (rí-kɔ̂ɔt-dtâa)
• Tibetan: རི་ཀོ་ཏ (ri ko ta)
• Ukrainian: ріко́та f (rikóta)
• Venetian: puìna (vec) f, poìna f

Anagrams

• citator, tarotic

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ricotta (literally “cooked again”), from Latin recocta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁi.kɔ.ta/
• Rhymes: -a

Noun

ricotta f (plural ricottas)

1. ricotta (Italian whey cheese)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /riˈkɔt.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔtta
• Hyphenation: ri‧còt‧ta

Etymology 1

Literally, “cooked again”, from Latin recocta. See ricuocere.

Participle

ricotta f sg

1. feminine singular of ricotto

Etymology 2

Noun

ricotta f (plural ricotte)

1. (also uncountable) ricotta (Italian whey cheese)

Anagrams

• attorci, citrato, ricatto, ricattò

Polish

ricotta

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian ricotta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /riˈkɔt.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔtta
• Syllabification: ri‧cot‧ta

Noun

ricotta f

1. ricotta (soft Italian unsalted whey cheese resembling cottage cheese)

Declension

Declension of ricotta

	singular	plural
nominative	ricotta	ricotty
genitive	ricotty	ricott
dative	ricotcie	ricottom
accusative	ricottę	ricotty
instrumental	ricottą	ricottami
locative	ricotcie	ricottach
vocative	ricotto	ricotty

Further reading

• ricotta in Polish dictionaries at PWN