Mortadella
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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).