sorbetto

See also: sorbettò

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sorˈbet.to/
  • Rhymes: -etto
  • Hyphenation: sor‧bét‧to

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish شربت (şerbet) (Turkish şerbet), from Persian شربت (šarbat, “sharbat”), from Arabic شَرْبَة (šarba, “drink”); unrelated to sorbire, despite phonetic and semantic similarities, but partly influenced by it. Doublet of sciroppo.

Noun

sorbetto m (plural sorbetti)

  1. sorbet, sherbet
  2. (vulgar, slang) a fellatio

Etymology 2

Verb

sorbetto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of sorbettare

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