pecorino
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian pecorino, from pecora (“sheep”).
Noun
editpecorino (countable and uncountable, plural pecorinos or pecorini)
- Any of a family of Italian hard cheeses made from ewe's milk.
- 2022, Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, Picador, page 282:
- Later that evening the two of them sat together in the tiny pantry just off the kitchen, the residue of pecorino cheese and cuts of hanging smoked pork strong and delicious around them.
Anagrams
editFinnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editpecorino
- pecorino (cheese)
Declension
editInflection of pecorino (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | pecorino | pecorinot | |
genitive | pecorinon | pecorinojen | |
partitive | pecorinoa | pecorinoja | |
illative | pecorinoon | pecorinoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | pecorino | pecorinot | |
accusative | nom. | pecorino | pecorinot |
gen. | pecorinon | ||
genitive | pecorinon | pecorinojen | |
partitive | pecorinoa | pecorinoja | |
inessive | pecorinossa | pecorinoissa | |
elative | pecorinosta | pecorinoista | |
illative | pecorinoon | pecorinoihin | |
adessive | pecorinolla | pecorinoilla | |
ablative | pecorinolta | pecorinoilta | |
allative | pecorinolle | pecorinoille | |
essive | pecorinona | pecorinoina | |
translative | pecorinoksi | pecorinoiksi | |
abessive | pecorinotta | pecorinoitta | |
instructive | — | pecorinoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
edit- “pecorino”, 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 2023-07-03
Italian
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editpecorino (feminine pecorina, masculine plural pecorini, feminine plural pecorine)
- (relational) sheep
- (figurative) sheeplike, sheepish
- Synonym: pecoresco
Noun
editpecorino m (plural pecorini)
- pecorino (cheese made with sheep milk)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editAnagrams
editSpanish
editPronunciation
editNoun
editpecorino m (plural pecorinos)
Swedish
editNoun
editpecorino ?
- pecorino (cheese)
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Italian
- English terms derived from Italian
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English terms with quotations
- en:Cheeses
- Finnish terms borrowed from Italian
- Finnish terms derived from Italian
- Finnish 4-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms spelled with C
- Finnish valo-type nominals
- Italian terms suffixed with -ino
- Italian 4-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ino
- Rhymes:Italian/ino/4 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian adjectives
- Italian relational adjectives
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- it:Cheeses
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ino
- Rhymes:Spanish/ino/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- sv:Cheeses