Mortadella Definition

môrtə-dĕlə
noun
A type of Italian bologna.
Webster's New World
A heat-cured Italian sausage usually made of ground pork and cubes of pork fat and flavored with wine and spices.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Mortadella

Noun

Singular:
mortadella
Plural:
mortadellas

Origin of Mortadella

  • From Italian mortadella, from Latin murtatum (“sausage seasoned with myrtle berries"), from myrtatum, from myrtus, from Ancient Greek μύρτον (murton).

    From Wiktionary

  • Italian feminine diminutive of murtato seasoned with myrtle berries from Latin myrtātus, murtātus from myrtus, myrta myrtle myrtle

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

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