Borrowed fromItaliangelati, the plural form ofgelato, fromLatingelātus, derived fromgelū(“frost, chill”), ultimately from theProto-Indo-European*gel-(“cold”).
gelati
- plural ofgelato
gelati (usuallyuncountable,pluralgelati)
- (Australia)gelato, Italian styleice-cream; a serving of gelato, often in acone.
1988,Frank Moorhouse, editor,Fictions 88, ABC Enterprises for the Australian Broadcast Corp.,page64:Out in Fitzroy Street, the Saturday afternoon crowds strolled the wide footpaths, lickinggelati.
2008, Catherine McKinnon,The Nearly Happy Family,unnumbered page:‘Would you kids like some gelati?’ Lucia asked.[…]At home we usually had Peter′s Rainbow, but we′d hadgelati heaps of times at Flash, thegelati shop in Hindley Street.
gelati m pl
- masculineplural ofgelato
gelati
- masculineplural ofgelato
gelati m
- plural ofgelato
gelātī
- inflection ofgelātus:
- nominative/vocativemasculineplural
- genitivemasculine/neutersingular