porcini

English

A pile of dried porcini

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian porcini, plural of porcino.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɔːˈtʃiː.ni/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɔːɹˈt͡ʃiː.ni/

Noun

porcini (plural porcini or porcinis)

1. An edible mushroom (Boletus edulis), prized for its flavor.
   • 1994, A Valley in Itay: The Many Seasons of a Villa in Umbria, Lisa St Aubin de Terán [1]

     Robbie, on the other hand, on his first trip out with Clara's brother Licio, gathered twenty-three porcini (more than his guide)

   Synonyms: cep, cepe, cèpe, penny bun

Translations

mushroom, Boletus edulis

• Basque: udazkeneko onddozuri
• Breton: boned-touseg (br) m
• Bulgarian: манатарка (bg) f (manatarka)
• Catalan: cep (ca) m, buixó m, sureny m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 牛肝菌 (zh) (niúgānjūn)

• Crimean Tatar: aq mantar
• Czech: hřib smrkový (cs) m
• Danish: Karl Johan svamp c
• Esperanto: boleto (eo)
• Finnish: herkkutatti (fi)
• French: cèpe (fr) m
• Galician: cogordón m
• German: Steinpilz (de) m
• Hungarian: ízletes vargánya (hu)
• Ido: cepo (io)
• Irish: ceap m
• Italian: porcino (it) m
• Japanese: ポルチーニ (poruchīni)
• Latin: bōlētus m
• Latvian: baravika (lv)
• Macedonian: вргањ m (vrganj)
• Mongolian: цагаан мөөг (cagaan möög)
• Neapolitan: severe m
• Norwegian: steinsopp (no) c
• Persian: قارچ تیره‌سر (qârč-e tire-sar)
• Polish: borowik szlachetny (pl) m, borowik (pl) m, prawdziwek (pl) m
• Portuguese: porcino (pt) m
• Russian: борови́к (ru) m (borovík), бе́лый гриб (ru) m (bélyj grib)
• Serbo-Croatian: vrganj (sh) m
• Slovene: jurček (sl) m
• Spanish: boleto (es) m
• Swedish: stensopp (sv) c, karljohan (sv) c, karljohansvamp c
• Venetian: brixa (vec) f
• Welsh: wicsen gron f

Further reading

• Boletus edulis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• prionic

Italian

Adjective

porcini

1. masculine plural of porcino

Noun

porcini m

1. plural of porcino

Anagrams

• ciprino, corpini

Latin

Adjective

porcīnī

1. inflection of porcīnus:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. genitive masculine/neuter singular