spinacio
Italian
Alternative forms
- spinace (uncommon)
Etymology
From Arabic إِسْفَانَاخ (ʾisfānāḵ), from Persian اسپناخ (ispanākh), probably through Ibero-Romance.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spiˈna.t͡ʃo/
- Rhymes: -atʃo
- Hyphenation: spi‧nà‧cio
Noun
spinacio m (plural spinaci)
- spinach (Spinacia oleracea)
- (usually in the plural) spinach (as food)
Descendants
- → Middle High German: spināt (final -t perhaps influenced by Salat)
- German: Spinat
- → Russian: шпинат (špinat)
- → Bashkir: шпинат (şpinat)
- → Kazakh: шпинат (şpinat)
- → Bashkir: шпинат (şpinat)
- → Serbo-Croatian: шпинат / špìnāt
- → Ukrainian: шпина́т (špynát)
- → Russian: шпинат (špinat)
- German: Spinat
Further reading
- spinacio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
- ispanico, pisciano