Definitions
Etymologies
- From Italian mortadella, from Latin murtatum ("sausage seasoned with myrtle berries"), from myrtatum, from myrtus, from Ancient Greek μύρτον (murton). (Wiktionary)
- Italian, feminine diminutive of murtato, seasoned with myrtle berries, from Latin myrtātus, murtātus, from myrtus, myrta, myrtle; see myrtle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The word mortadella came into Italian in the Middle Ages from French and then Tuscan, having originated in the Latin word for the mortar in which the meat was pounded.”
“My account of the history of the word mortadella draws on V.”
“And not long after Croce’s death the word mortadella would become exclusively joined forever both to the kind of sausage we know today and to the city of Bologna.”
“Five centuries ago, Platina remarked on the need to cook liver sausage gently see box, p. 169, and said that another sausage was called mortadella “because it is surely more pleasant a little raw than overcooked.””
Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
“The American word "baloney" derives from the city of Bologna in Italy, where they call a fine-ground pork sausage "mortadella" -- although in America baloney can also derive from chicken, turkey, or beef.”
“The author prefers to think that the generalizations in X Saves the World are more along the lines of mortadella, which is that really expensive and delicious baloney they make in Italy.”
“Often known simply as “Bologna”—hence the American corruption baloney—a mortadella is a chubby cylinder of cooked sausage in string, generally about the size of a small baby.”
“His generalizations "are more along the lines of mortadella, which is that really expensive and delicious baloney they make in Italy.”
“The Muff-a-lotta sandwich packs mortadella, salami, provolone and house-made olive salad.”
“I like my men more like I like my wine in a box more like mortadella in the mouth of a moron more like vanishing amorists after the morning after more than was meant by mormon morals and their more sexy propositions”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mortadella’.
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Luncheon meats
Because I couldn't help myself. See luncheon.
olive loaf, baloney, salami, ham, roast beef, prosciutto, pimiento loaf, summer sausage, cotto salami, silver star’s blu..., spam, cheese loaf and 18 more...
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lee_d's Words
neologism, epicaricacy, chillax, arrears, locution, ressentiment, facticity, glib, escritoire, epicurian, alacrity, arbitrageur and 150 more...
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Sausages!
Come on, who doesn't like a good sausage?
country thin, bratwurst, salami, kransky, andouille, boudin blanc, chorizo, blood sausage, Spanish sausage, Polish sausage, bologna, kielbasa and 79 more...
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Italian
chiaroscuro, ghetto, propaganda, sprezzatura, coloratura, melisma, farrago, baldacchino, farrago, glissando, agita, pappardelle and 5 more...
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reesetee From Wikipedia: "The Italian politician, prime minister and former President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004, Romano Prodi, who loves Bologna, is usually nicknamed 'Mortadella' by the Italian press because of his origin and presumed resemblance to the pale pink sausage."
I love Italy. Jan 17, 2008