trattoria

English

Etymology

From Italian trattoria.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɹɑtəˈɹiːə/
  • Hyphenation: trat‧to‧ria

Noun

trattoria (plural trattorias or trattorie)

  1. A small, informal Italian-style restaurant.
    Hypernyms: restaurant < establishment
    Coordinate terms: osteria, taberna, taverna, bistro
    • 1995 November 24, Eric Asimov, “A Complete 'Look'”, in The New York Times[1]:
      La Granita is a new trattoria on the Upper East Side with a charcoal grill, a rotisserie and a wood-burning pizza oven.

Italian

Etymology

From trattore (host), from trattare (to treat). Cognate with Piedmontese tratorìa.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ia
  • IPA(key): /trat.toˈri.a/
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: trat‧to‧rì‧a
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

trattoria f (plural trattorie)

  1. small or simple restaurant; bistro
  2. factory for silk-processing

Descendants

  • English: trattoria
  • Spanish: trattoria

Anagrams

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian trattoria.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɾatoˈɾia/ [t̪ɾa.t̪oˈɾi.a]
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Syllabification: trat‧to‧ri‧a

Noun

trattoria f (plural trattorias)

  1. trattoria (small, informal Italian-style restaurant)

Usage notes

  • According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.