"minestra" meaning in Italian

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Noun

IPA: /miˈnɛ.stra/ Forms: minestre [plural], minestrìna [diminutive], minestróne [augmentative], minestráccia [pejorative], minestrùccia [pejorative]
Rhymes: -ɛstra Etymology: From minestrare (“to serve, prepare (as in soup)”), from Latin ministrāre. Etymology templates: {{m|it|minestrare|t=to serve, prepare (as in soup)}} minestrare (“to serve, prepare (as in soup)”), {{inh|it|la|ministro|ministrāre}} Latin ministrāre Head templates: {{it-noun|f|aug=minestróne|dim=minestrìna|pej=minestráccia,minestrùccia}} minestra f (plural minestre, diminutive minestrìna, augmentative minestróne, pejorative minestráccia or minestrùccia)
  1. soup Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-minestra-it-noun-kBT6yBhN
  2. pasta (boiled and eaten with a sauce) Tags: feminine Categories (topical): Cooking, Foods Synonyms: pasta asciutta, pastasciutta
    Sense id: en-minestra-it-noun-Hfu9XhG5 Disambiguation of Cooking: 11 89 Disambiguation of Foods: 44 56 Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header, Italian links with redundant wikilinks Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 27 73 Disambiguation of Italian links with redundant wikilinks: 6 94
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: o mangi la minestra o salti la finestra (english: beggars can't be choosers; either you eat the soup or you jump (out of) the window) [literally] Related terms: minestraio, minestrare, minestrina, minestrone

Inflected forms

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