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

Noun

gelati

  1. plural of gelato

Noun

gelati (usually uncountable, plural gelati)

  1. (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

Participle

gelati

  1. masculine plural of gelato

Adjective

gelati

  1. masculine plural of gelato

Noun

gelati m

  1. plural of gelato

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Latin

Participle

gelātī

  1. nominative masculine plural of gelātus
  2. genitive masculine singular of gelātus
  3. genitive neuter singular of gelātus
  4. vocative masculine plural of gelātus
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