mortadella

From Italian mortadella, from diminutive of Latin murtatum (“sausage seasoned with myrtle berries”), from myrtatum, from myrtus, from Ancient Greek μύρτος (múrtos).

• Rhymes: -ɛlə

mortadella (countable and uncountable, plural mortadellas or mortadelle)

1. A smooth-textured Italian pork sausage with lumps of fat, flavoured with spices; eaten cold.

• baloney
• boloney
• Bologna sausage
• bologna

From Italian mortadella.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmortɑdelːɑ/, [ˈmo̞rt̪ɑ̝ˌde̞lːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -elːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): mor‧ta‧del‧la
• Hyphenation^(key): mor‧ta‧del‧la

mortadella

1. mortadella

• “mortadella”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

From a diminutive of Latin murtatum (“sausage seasoned with myrtle berries”), from myrtatum, from myrtus, from Ancient Greek μύρτος (múrtos).

• IPA^(key): /mor.taˈdɛl.la/
• Rhymes: -ɛlla
• Hyphenation: mor‧ta‧dèl‧la

mortadella f (plural mortadelle)

1. mortadella

Borrowed from Italian mortadella.

mortadella f (uncountable)

1. mortadella