minestra

Italian

Etymology

From minestrare (“to serve, prepare (as in soup)”), from Latin ministrāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miˈnɛs.tra/
  • Rhymes: -ɛstra
  • Hyphenation: mi‧nè‧stra

Noun

minestra f (plural minestre, diminutive minestrìna, augmentative minestróne, pejorative minestráccia or minestrùccia)

  1. soup
  2. pasta (boiled and eaten with a sauce)
    Synonyms: pasta asciutta, pastasciutta

Usage notes

  • In the Italian culinary tradition of a multi-course dinner this is usually the first course (not counting antipasto, if any). As a soup, it tends to be lighter than zuppa and with smaller pieces than minestrone.
  • In most settings just ”minestra” will be understood to be a soup-like dish, but the term is also used to refer to minestra asciutta, which is a pasta dish.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Alemannic German: Manestre

Further reading

  • minestra in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • minestra in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  • minestra in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • minestra in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • minèstra in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • minèstra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /miˈnɛs.tɾɐ/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /miˈnɛʃ.tɾɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /miˈnɛs.tɾa/

  • Hyphenation: mi‧nes‧tra

Noun

minestra f (plural minestras)

  1. (Brazil) A trick or method used to achieve certain goals.
  2. (cooking) italian soap

Further reading

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