antipasto
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian antipasto (“food before the meal”).
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -æstəʊ
Noun edit
antipasto (plural antipastos or antipasti)
- An Italian starter for a meal; normally a cold assortment of salami, cheese, seafood and vegetables.
- 2009, Nicholas Belfrage, The Finest Wines of Tuscany and Central Italy, →ISBN, page 312:
- The antipasto often features fettunta—thin slices of Tuscan bread toasted and salted (the bread itself is unsalted) and perhaps rubbed with garlic (you may prefer to rub it on for yourself, or not if you're due to discuss Uganda or have an interview with Silvio Berlusconi)
Translations edit
Italian starter for a meal
See also edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
antipasto
Declension edit
Inflection of antipasto (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | antipasto | antipastot | ||
genitive | antipaston | antipastojen | ||
partitive | antipastoa | antipastoja | ||
illative | antipastoon | antipastoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | antipasto | antipastot | ||
accusative | nom. | antipasto | antipastot | |
gen. | antipaston | |||
genitive | antipaston | antipastojen | ||
partitive | antipastoa | antipastoja | ||
inessive | antipastossa | antipastoissa | ||
elative | antipastosta | antipastoista | ||
illative | antipastoon | antipastoihin | ||
adessive | antipastolla | antipastoilla | ||
ablative | antipastolta | antipastoilta | ||
allative | antipastolle | antipastoille | ||
essive | antipastona | antipastoina | ||
translative | antipastoksi | antipastoiksi | ||
abessive | antipastotta | antipastoitta | ||
instructive | — | antipastoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “antipasto”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From anti- (“prior to, before”) + pasto (“meal”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
antipasto m (plural antipasti)
- starter, hors d'oeuvre, appetizer, antipasto
- Synonym: (in the plural) principio
See also edit
Further reading edit
- antipasto in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- antipasto in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- antipasto in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- antipasto in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- antipasto in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
- antipasto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana