Ceviche Definition

səvēchā, səvēchē
noun
A Latin American dish consisting of pieces of raw fish or shellfish marinated in lime juice with chilies, chopped tomatoes, etc., and served chilled as an appetizer.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Ceviche

Noun

Singular:
ceviche
Plural:
ceviches

Origin of Ceviche

  • Spanish cebiche, ceviche from Arabic sikbāj meat cooked in vinegar from Middle Persian sikbāg sik vinegar -bāg food, broth (from Old Iranian -pāka- cooked (with or in) pekw- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Spanish ceviche.

    From Wiktionary

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