pecorino
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian pecorino, from pecora (“sheep”).
Noun edit
pecorino (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.
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Noun edit
pecorino
- pecorino (cheese)
Declension edit
Inflection 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 edit
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Adjective edit
pecorino (feminine pecorina, masculine plural pecorini, feminine plural pecorine)
- (relational) sheep
- (figurative) sheeplike, sheepish
- Synonym: pecoresco
Noun edit
pecorino m (plural pecorini)
- pecorino (cheese made with sheep milk)
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pecorino m (plural pecorinos)
Swedish edit
Noun edit
pecorino ?
- pecorino (cheese)