caponata

English

Sicilian caponata

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian caponata.

Noun

caponata (countable and uncountable, plural caponatas)

1. A Sicilian dish of baked aubergines with capers, olives, pine nuts etc, normally served cold.

Translations

Sicilian dish

• French: caponata (fr) f
• German: Caponata (de) f
• Italian: caponata (it) f
• Japanese: カポナータ
• Korean: 카포나타 (kaponata)
• Portuguese: caponata f
• Russian: капоната (kaponata)
• Sicilian: capunata (scn) f
• Spanish: caponata f

Anagrams

• Catapano

Italian

Etymology

Named after an original ingredient, the capone fish (Mai Mai, in English). When the fish grew to be omitted from the recipe over time, the name nevertheless remained.

Noun

caponata f (plural caponate)

1. caponata (Sicilian dish)

Anagrams

• Catapano, catapano

Portuguese

Noun

caponata f (plural caponatas)

1. caponata (Sicilian dish)

Further reading

• “caponata”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “caponata”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026