antipasto

antipasto

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian antipasto (“food before the meal”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æstəʊ

Noun

antipasto (plural antipastos or antipasti)

1. An Italian starter for a meal; normally a cold assortment of salami, cheese, seafood and vegetables.
   • 2009, Nicholas Belfrage, The Finest Wines of Tuscany and Central Italy, →ISBN, page 312:

     The antipasto often features fettunta—thin slices of Tuscan bread toasted and salted (the bread itself is unsalted) and perhaps rubbed with garlic (you may prefer to rub it on for yourself, or not if you're due to discuss Uganda or have an interview with Silvio Berlusconi)

Translations

Italian starter for a meal

Chinese: Mandarin: 意大利式餐前小吃 (Yìdàlì shì cān qián xiǎochī), 拼盤／拼盘 (zh) (pīnpán)， 冷盤／冷盘 (zh) (lěngpán) Czech: předkrm (cs) m Finnish: antipasto (fi) French: (culin.) hors d'œuvre (fr) m Greek: ορεκτικό (el) n (orektikó) Italian: antipasto (it) m Polish: antypast (pl) m inan Portuguese: antepasto (pt) m Russian: заку́ска (ru) f (zakúska)

See also

• appetiser, appetizer
• entrée, entree
• hors d'oeuvre
• starter
• Appendix:Menus/Italian

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Finnish

Etymology

From Italian antipasto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑntipɑsto/, [ˈɑn̪t̪iˌpɑs̠t̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑsto
• Syllabification^(key): an‧ti‧pas‧to

Noun

antipasto

1. antipasto

Declension

Inflection of antipasto (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		antipasto	antipastot
genitive		antipaston	antipastojen
partitive		antipastoa	antipastoja
illative		antipastoon	antipastoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		antipasto	antipastot
accusative	nom.	antipasto	antipastot
	gen.	antipaston
genitive		antipaston	antipastojen
partitive		antipastoa	antipastoja
inessive		antipastossa	antipastoissa
elative		antipastosta	antipastoista
illative		antipastoon	antipastoihin
adessive		antipastolla	antipastoilla
ablative		antipastolta	antipastoilta
allative		antipastolle	antipastoille
essive		antipastona	antipastoina
translative		antipastoksi	antipastoiksi
instructive		—	antipastoin
abessive		antipastotta	antipastoitta
comitative		—	antipastoineen

Possessive forms of antipasto (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	antipastoni	antipastomme
2nd person	antipastosi	antipastonne
3rd person	antipastonsa

Anagrams

• tasopinta

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Italian

Etymology

From anti- (“prior to, before”) +‎ pasto (“meal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /an.tiˈpa.sto/
• Rhymes: -asto
• Hyphenation: an‧ti‧pà‧sto

Noun

antipasto m (plural antipasti)

1. starter, hors d'oeuvre, appetizer, antipasto

   Synonym: (in the plural) principio

See also

• primo piatto
• Appendix:Menus/Italian

Further reading

• antipasto in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• antipasto in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• antipasto in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• antipasto in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• antipasto in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• antipasto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• spiantato