panada

panada

English

Alternative forms

• panade, panado

Etymology

From Spanish panada, Italian panata (“panada”).

Noun

panada (countable and uncountable, plural panadas)

1. (cooking) A dish made by boiling bread in water and combining the pulp with milk, stock, butter or sometimes egg yolks. [from 16th c.]
2. (obsolete, figuratively) Something blandly nourishing; pap. [18th–19th c.]
   • 1789, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana, 8 May:

     He paid his Debts, call'd in some single Acquaintance, told him he was dying & drove away that Panada Conversation which Friends think proper to administer at Sick Bed-Sides, with becoming Steadiness.

   • 1822, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 12.12:

     [They] swallow, without flinching, all the theological panada with which she may think fit to cram them.

3. A thick paste or sauce made from boiling flour or breadcrumbs. [from 19th c.]

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Catalan

Etymology

pa +‎ -ada

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /pəˈna.də/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /paˈna.da/

Noun

panada f (plural panades)

1. Crops too wet to harvest.
2. A savoury pie or turnover.

See also

• casqueta
• cocarroi
• pastisset

References

• “panada”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023

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Portuguese

Participle

panada f sg

1. feminine singular of panado