minestra

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Italian

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Etymology

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From minestrare (to serve, prepare (as in soup)), from Latin ministrāre.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /miˈnɛ.stra/
  • Rhymes: -ɛstra
  • Hyphenation: mi‧nè‧stra

Noun

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minestra f (plural minestre, diminutive minestrìna, augmentative minestróne, pejorative minestráccia or minestrùccia)

  1. soup
  2. pasta (boiled and eaten with a sauce)
    Synonyms: pasta asciutta, pastasciutta

Usage notes

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  • In the Italian culinary tradition of a multi-course dinner this is usually the first course (not counting antipasto, if any). As a soup, it tends to be lighter than zuppa and with smaller pieces than minestrone.
  • In most settings just ”minestra” will be understood to be a soup-like dish, but the term is also used to refer to minestra asciutta, which is a pasta dish.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Alemannic German: Manestre

Further reading

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  • minestra in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • minestra in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  • minestra in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • minestra in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • minèstra in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • minèstra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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