osteria
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian osteria. Doublet of hostry.
Noun
osteria (plural osterias or osterie)
- A small local restaurant in Italy.
- 2015 August 13, Robert Draper, “In Italy, Hiking and Haute Cuisine in the Dolomites”, in New York Times:
- And though the standard fare at the mountain osterias known as rifugios largely remains slabs of speck and strong local cheese, there are exceptions — most notably Col Alt, a rifugio above Corvara accessible only by ski lift, where meat dishes take the form of succulent venison or rabbit, and bottles of aged Barolo offer a noble complement to the soaring mountain vistas.
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Anagrams
- areítos, otaries, roastie, triaose
Finnish
Noun
osteria
- partitive singular of osteri
Anagrams
- soratie
Italian
Etymology
From oste + -eria, from Old French oste (“innkeeper, host”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /o.steˈri.a/
- Rhymes: -ia
- Hyphenation: o‧ste‧rì‧a
Noun
osteria f (plural osterie)
- inn
- barrelhouse
- bistro
- tavern
- osteria (small restaurant in the countryside)
Descendants
- → English: osteria
- → Polish: austeria
Interjection
osteria
- (euphemistic) expletive, often used to replace the mildly blasphemous expletive ostia (“Host, Communion wafer”); blimey!
- gee
Further reading
- osteria in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
- Asterio, esortai, isotera, osterai, toserai