gelato

• gelati (Australia)

Borrowed from Italian gelato (“ice cream”), from Latin gelātus, derived from gelū (“frost, chill”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəˈlɑtoʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dʒəˈlɑːtəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːtəʊ
• Hyphenation: ge‧la‧to

gelato (usually uncountable, plural gelati or gelatos)

1. An Italian variant of ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavourings. The ingredients are supercooled while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form.
   • 2025 May 5, Brock Colyar, “It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl”, in New York‎^[1], archived from the original on 19 May 2025:

     Now the area has been remade in their image. Every other storefront seems to be a coffee shop, a gelato shop, or a med spa.

• gelateria

• Goleta, legato

From Latin gelātus, derived from gelū (“frost, chill”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). By surface analysis, gelo (“frost, cold”) +‎ -ato (past participle suffix). Literally, “frozen.”

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒeˈla.to/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ato
• Hyphenation: ge‧là‧to

gelato (feminine gelata, masculine plural gelati, feminine plural gelate)

1. past participle of gelare

gelato (feminine gelata, masculine plural gelati, feminine plural gelate)

1. icy, frozen, very cold

   Synonyms: freddissimo, gelido, ghiacciato

   Antonyms: ardente, bollente, caldissimo, cocente, incandescente, rovente

gelato m (plural gelati)

1. (also uncountable) ice cream, gelato

• legato, tegola, togale

gelātō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of gelātus