spadellare
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
spadellàre (first-person singular present spadèllo, first-person singular past historic spadellài, past participle spadellàto, auxiliary avére)
- (intransitive) to busy oneself with cooking (with pots and pans)
- Synonym: (colloquial) spignattare
- (cooking, transitive) to flip in a frying pan while sauteing it
- (hunting slang, transitive, intransitive) to miss
- Synonym: (uncommon) padellare
Usage notes edit
- The past participle spadellato, used relationally in the name of a dish, refers to a method of cooking where the food is first sautéed and then finished off at a lower temperature.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of spadellàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
Further reading edit
- Anna Del Conte (2013) “padella”, in Gastronomy of Italy, revised edition, Pavilion, →ISBN, page 260.
- spadellare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana