Borrowed fromItaliangelato(“ice cream”), fromLatingelātus, derived fromgelū(“frost, chill”), ultimately from theProto-Indo-European*gel-(“cold”).
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gelato (usuallyuncountable,pluralgelatiorgelatos)
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FromLatingelātus, derived fromgelū(“frost, chill”), ultimately from theProto-Indo-European*gel-(“cold”). Bysurface analysis,gelo(“frost, cold”) +-ato(past participle suffix). Literally, “frozen.”
gelato (femininegelata,masculine pluralgelati,feminine pluralgelate)
gelato (femininegelata,masculine pluralgelati,feminine pluralgelate)
gelātō
