cacciatora

cacciatora

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Etymology tree
Italian cacciatorabor.
English cacciatora

    Borrowed from Italian cacciatora.

    Noun

    cacciatora (uncountable)

    1. A style of cooking in which meat is cooked in a sauce containing mushrooms, shallots, tomatoes, white wine and herbs.
      Synonym: chasseur

    Italian

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /kat.t͡ʃaˈto.ra/[1]
    • Rhymes: -ora
    • Hyphenation: cac‧cia‧tó‧ra

    Etymology 1

    From cacciatore (“hunter”).[2]

    Noun

    cacciatora f (uncountable)

    1. only used in alla cacciatora (“hunter-style, cacciatora, cacciatore”)

    Etymology 2

    Ellipsis of giacca alla cacciatora.[2]

    Noun

    cacciatora f (plural cacciatore)

    1. hunting jacket

    References

    1. ^ cacciatora in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 cacciatora in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

    Anagrams

    This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.