bruschetta

English

Etymology

From Italian bruschetta, from bruscare (“to toast”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: bro͝o-skĕtʹə, IPA^(key): /bɹʊˈskɛtə/
• (US) enPR: bro͞o-skĕtʹə, IPA^(key): /bɹuˈskɛtə/, (nonstandard) /bɹuˈʃɛtə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɛtə
• Hyphenation: bru‧schet‧ta

Noun

bruschetta (countable and uncountable, plural bruschettas or bruschette)

1. A light Italian dish of toasted bread with a topping of olive oil, garlic and chopped tomatoes.
   • 2018, Cerella Sechrist, The Way Back to Erin, Harlequin, →ISBN:

     She fished a napkin out of the basket and put the slice of bruschetta on it.

Translations

Italian toasted bread topped with garlic and tomatoes

• Arabic: بْرُوسْكِيتَّا f (bruskētta)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 普切塔 (pou² cit³ taap³) (rare, English name often used instead)

  Mandarin: 普切塔 (pǔqiētǎ)

• Finnish: bruschetta
• French: bruschetta (fr) f
• German: Bruschetta (de) f
• Hebrew: בְּרוּסְקֶטָה f (bruskéta)
• Italian: bruschetta (it) f, (Tuscany) fettunta f
• Japanese: ブルスケッタ (burusuketta)
• Korean: 브루스케타 (beuruseuketa)
• Persian: بروسکتا (brosketâ)
• Polish: bruschetta (pl) f
• Portuguese: brusqueta (pt) f
• Russian: бруске́тта (ru) f (bruskétta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: брускѐта f

  Roman: bruskèta (sh) f

• Spanish: bruschetta f
• Ukrainian: бруске́та f (bruskéta)

Further reading

• bruschetta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “bruschetta”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bruˈsket.ta/
• Rhymes: -etta
• Hyphenation: bru‧schét‧ta

Etymology 1

From brusca(re) (“to toast”) +‎ -etta (noun-forming diminutive suffix).

Noun

bruschetta f (plural bruschette)

1. bruschetta (Italian bread topped with garlic and tomatoes)

   Synonym: (Tuscany) fettunta

2. (Tuscany) a soup consisting of olive oil, boiled cavolo nero and toasted garlic bread

Etymology 2

From brusca (“twig”) +‎ -etta (diminutive suffix).

Noun

bruschetta f (plural bruschette)

1. Diminutive of brusca: a light twig
2. (in the plural) a game similar to the sortition by drawing straws, in which the one who picks the longest (or shortest) stick wins

Further reading

• bruschetta on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian bruschetta, from bruscare (“to toast”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɾusˈketa/ [bɾusˈke.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -eta

Noun

bruschetta f (plural bruschettas)

1. bruschetta (Italian bread topped with garlic and tomatoes)

Usage notes

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.