Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /paʎˈʎa.ta/, (central Italy) /pajˈja.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ata
  • Hyphenation: pa‧glià‧ta

Etymology 1 edit

paglia +‎ -ata

Noun edit

pagliata f (plural pagliate)

  1. fodder made of crushed straw mixed with various vegetables
    Hypernym: foraggio
    • 1681, Giacomo Agostinetti, “Ricordo LXXXII. La quantità de' Fieni, che si deve preparare [Reminder 82 - The amount of hay to be prepared]”, in Cento, e dieci ricordi, che formano il buon fattor di villa [One hundred and ten reminders which make a good country farmer]‎[1], page 224:
      La provisione del fieno vuol esser fatta per li Cavalli, che stanno sempre in stalla circa carra otto per testa, è vero, che in questi si può compensare la pagliata, che si facesse per darli l'inverno, che non faticano.
      Hay should be stocked for horses, when they are always in the stables, for about four thousand liters for each one; indeed, one can include straw forage, which is made to give them during the winter, when they don't work, in these.
      (literally, “The stocking of hay wants to be done for the horses, that stay always in stable about eight carra per head, it is true, that in these the pagliata can compensate, which would be made to give to them [in] the winter, since they do not work.”)

Etymology 2 edit

Uncertain.

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

pagliata f (plural pagliate)

  1. (chiefly Roman and central Italian) the jejunum of an unweaned calf (or, rarely, of a young ox) containing chyme, cut up into short segments with tied up ends, used as food
    • 1929, Ada Boni, Il talismano della felicità [The talisman of happiness] (cookbook); republished, “Pagliata col riso e coi rigatoni [Pagliata with rice and rigatoni]”, in Rome: Stabilimento tipografico Carlo Colombo, 1954 April, page 472:
      Acquistata la pagliata, che è una parte dell'intestino del bue, conviene spellarla, a meno che non si sia dato l'incarico al macellaio.
      Once one has bought the pagliata—which is a part of an ox's intestine—one should peel it, unless the butcher was previously given the task.

Etymology 3 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective edit

pagliata

  1. feminine singular of pagliato

Further reading edit

  •   pagliata on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
  • pagliata in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • Accademia della Crusca (p. 1961), “pagliata”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana (in Italian), volume 12, page 368
  • pagliata in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Anagrams edit