frittata

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian frittata, from fritto (“fried”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɹiˈtɑtə/

Noun

frittata (plural frittatas or frittate)

1. A crustless quiche: a molded omelette in which vegetables, cheese, etc., are mixed into the eggs and cooked together.
   • 1998, Mark Bittman, How to Cook Everything, page 740:

     The classic Italian egg pie, the frittata is an attractive dish that requires no fancy rolling or split-second timing... Much of the preparation for most frittate can be done in advance[.]

Synonyms

• Spanish omelette

Translations

omelette

Finnish: munakas (fi) (in compounds with the added ingredients), frittata Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Lombard: fertada (lmo) f (Milanese) Polish: frittata (pl) f Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: фритта́та (ru) f (frittáta)

Further reading

• frittata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

From fritto (“fried”) +‎ -ata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fritˈta.ta/
• Rhymes: -ata
• Hyphenation: frit‧tà‧ta

Noun

frittata f (plural frittate)

1. frittata

Related terms

• frittatina

Anagrams

• trafitta

Sicilian

Etymology

Compare Italian frittata.

Noun

frittata f (plural frittati)

1. (eastern Sicily, Calabria) Synonym of frocia (“omelette, frittata”)
2. mistake

   fari na frittata di na cosa ― to ruin, damage something (literally, “to make an omelette of something”)

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1006: “la frittata” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Traina, Antonino (1868) “frittata”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 1722–1723
• Pasqualino (c. 1790) “frittata”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 2, page 163