Mortadella

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A smooth-textured Italian pork sausage with lumps of fat, flavoured with spices; eaten cold. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Italian mortadella, from diminutive of Latin murtatum (“sausage seasoned with myrtle berries”), from myrtatum, from myrtus, from Ancient Greek μύρτος (múrtos).

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