gelati
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian gelati, the plural form of gelato, from Latin gelātus, derived from gelū (“frost, chill”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /dʒəˈlɑːti/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dʒəˈlɑːtɪ/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /dʒəˈlɐːtɪ/
- Rhymes: -ɑːti
Noun
gelati (usually uncountable, plural gelati)
- (Australia) gelato, Italian style ice-cream; a serving of gelato, often in a cone.
- 1988, Frank Moorhouse, editor, Fictions 88, ABC Enterprises for the Australian Broadcast Corp., page 64:
- Out in Fitzroy Street, the Saturday afternoon crowds strolled the wide footpaths, licking gelati.
- 1993, University of Western Australia, Westerly, volume 38–39, page 37:
- Gelati. Gelati. Limone, Strawberry, Chocolaty! shouts the Gelati man from the south of his face.
- 2008, Catherine McKinnon, The Nearly Happy Family, page unnumbered:
- ‘Would you kids like some gelati?’ Lucia asked. […] At home we usually had Peter′s Rainbow, but we′d had gelati heaps of times at Flash, the gelati shop in Hindley Street.
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Italian
Latin
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