macedonia

See also: Macedonia, macedónia, macedonià, macedònia, Macedónia, and Macedònia

English

Noun

macedonia (plural macedonias)

1. (cooking) Alternative form of macédoine
   • 1991, New York Magazine, volume 24, number 50, page 94:

     Try the whole filet mignon, roast duckling, green lasagna, choucroute garni, Cornish hens, and the macedonia of fruit made each day.

Anagrams

• daemoniac, dæmoniac

Italian

Etymology

From Macedonia, probably referring to the great ethnic variety that distinguished that region.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.t͡ʃeˈdɔ.nja/
• Rhymes: -ɔnja
• Hyphenation: ma‧ce‧dò‧nia

Noun

macedonia f (plural macedonie)

1. (cooking) fruit salad (often tinned)
2. (figurative) a mixture of heterogeneous elements; a mishmash, medley

Derived terms

• parola macedonia (“portmanteau word”)

Further reading

• Macedonia di frutta on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams

• demoniaca, emaciando

Spanish

Etymology

The sense “fruit salad” via French macédoine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /maθeˈdonja/ [ma.θeˈð̞o.nja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /maseˈdonja/ [ma.seˈð̞o.nja]
• Rhymes: -onja
• Syllabification: ma‧ce‧do‧nia

Noun

macedonia f (plural macedonias)

1. fruit salad

   Synonym: ensalada de frutas

2. female equivalent of macedonio

Adjective

macedonia

1. feminine singular of macedonio

Further reading

• “macedonio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16