English

edit

Etymology

edit

Borrowed from Italian frittata, from fritto (fried).

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

frittata (plural frittatas or frittate)

  1. A crustless quiche: a molded omelette in which vegetables, cheese, etc., are mixed into the eggs and cooked together.
    • 1998, Mark Bittman, How to Cook Everything, page 740:
      The classic Italian egg pie, the frittata is an attractive dish that requires no fancy rolling or split-second timing... Much of the preparation for most frittate can be done in advance[.]

Synonyms

edit

Translations

edit

Further reading

edit

Italian

edit

Etymology

edit

From fritto (fried) +‎ -ata.

Pronunciation

edit
  • IPA(key): /fritˈta.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ata
  • Hyphenation: frit‧tà‧ta

Noun

edit

frittata f (plural frittate)

  1. frittata
edit

Anagrams

edit

Sicilian

edit

Etymology

edit

Compare Italian frittata.

Noun

edit

frittata f (plural frittati)

  1. (eastern Sicily, Calabria) Synonym of frocia (omelette, frittata)
  2. mistake
    fari na frittata di na cosato ruin, damage something (literally, “to make an omelette of something”)

References

edit
  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1006: “la frittata” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Traina, Antonino (1868) “frittata”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 1722–1723
  • Pasqualino (c. 1790) “frittata”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 2, page 163