"mortadella" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: mortadellas [plural], mortadelle [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛlə Etymology: From Italian mortadella, from diminutive of Latin murtatum (“sausage seasoned with myrtle berries”), from myrtatum, from myrtus, from Ancient Greek μύρτος (múrtos). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|it|mortadella}} Italian mortadella, {{der|en|la|murtatum||sausage seasoned with myrtle berries}} Latin murtatum (“sausage seasoned with myrtle berries”), {{der|en|grc|μύρτος}} Ancient Greek μύρτος (múrtos) Head templates: {{en-noun|~|s|mortadelle}} mortadella (countable and uncountable, plural mortadellas or mortadelle)
  1. A smooth-textured Italian pork sausage with lumps of fat, flavoured with spices; eaten cold. Wikipedia link: mortadella Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Sausages Synonyms: baloney, boloney, Bologna sausage, bologna Translations (sausage): мартадэ́ла (martadéla) [feminine] (Belarusian), мортаде́ла (mortadéla) [feminine] (Bulgarian), mortadel·la [feminine] (Catalan), mortadella (Finnish), mortadelle [feminine] (French), mortadela [feminine] (Galician), Mortadella [feminine] (German), μορταδέλα (mortadéla) [feminine] (Greek), mortadelo (Ido), モルタデッラ (morutadera) (Japanese), 모르타델라 (moreutadella) (Korean), mortadela [feminine] (Polish), mortadela [feminine] (Portuguese), mortadelă [feminine] (Romanian), mortadella [feminine] (Romanian), мортаде́лла (mortadɛ́lla) [feminine] (Russian), mortadela [feminine] (Spanish), mortadella [common-gender] (Swedish), мортаде́ла (mortadéla) [feminine] (Ukrainian)

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