mussarela

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Noun

mussarela f (plural mussarelas)

(proscribed) mozzarella (soft Italian cheese)

Usage notes

The form mussarela is proscribed due to the etymological convention that voiceless alveolar sibilants that don't descend from Latin s in words borrowed from other Romance languages must use ç instead of ss in the middle of a word. Some prescriptivist dictionaries write this word as muçarela.