fundido

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish fundido (melted).

Adjective

fundido (not comparable)

  1. (of cheese) melted
    • 2022 October 4, Nikita Richardson, “Rice Cakes, Rice Rolls, Rice Sweets”, in The New York Times[1]:
      Fittingly, I enjoyed those warm and crunchy-tender Korean rice cakes beneath slightly salty ham and a drizzle of floral honey with my colleague Priya Krishna, who first put me on to the rice-cake fundido at Haenyeo in Park Slope, Brooklyn, back in 2019.

Galician

Participle

fundido (feminine fundida, masculine plural fundidos, feminine plural fundidas)

  1. past participle of fundir

Portuguese

Participle

fundido (feminine fundida, masculine plural fundidos, feminine plural fundidas)

  1. past participle of fundir

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /funˈdido/ [fũn̪ˈd̪i.ð̞o]
  • Rhymes: -ido
  • Syllabification: fun‧di‧do

Adjective

fundido (feminine fundida, masculine plural fundidos, feminine plural fundidas)

  1. (colloquial) beat; knackered

Participle

fundido (feminine fundida, masculine plural fundidos, feminine plural fundidas)

  1. past participle of fundir

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