antipasto

Borrowed from Italian antipasto (“food before the meal”).

• Rhymes: -æstəʊ

antipasto (plural antipastos or antipasti)

1. An Italian starter for a meal; normally a cold assortment of salami, cheese, seafood and vegetables.
   • 2009, Nicholas Belfrage, The Finest Wines of Tuscany and Central Italy, →ISBN, page 312:

     The antipasto often features fettunta—thin slices of Tuscan bread toasted and salted (the bread itself is unsalted) and perhaps rubbed with garlic (you may prefer to rub it on for yourself, or not if you're due to discuss Uganda or have an interview with Silvio Berlusconi)

• appetiser, appetizer
• entrée, entree
• hors d'oeuvre
• starter
• Appendix:Menus/Italian

From Italian antipasto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑntipɑsto/, [ˈɑn̪t̪iˌpɑs̠t̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑsto
• Syllabification^(key): an‧ti‧pas‧to

antipasto

1. antipasto

• tasopinta

From anti- (“prior to, before”) +‎ pasto (“meal”).

• IPA^(key): /an.tiˈpa.sto/
• Rhymes: -asto
• Hyphenation: an‧ti‧pà‧sto

antipasto m (plural antipasti)

1. starter, hors d'oeuvre, appetizer, antipasto

   Synonym: (in the plural) principio

• primo piatto
• Appendix:Menus/Italian

• antipasto in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• antipasto in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• antipasto in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• antipasto in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• antipasto in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• antipasto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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