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mortadella

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • rhymes with -ɛlə

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noun

Meaning 1

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

20 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Belarusian: мартадэ́ла (martadéla) — sausage
  • Bulgarian: мортаде́ла (mortadéla) — sausage
  • Catalan: mortadel·la — sausage
  • Finnish: mortadella — sausage
  • French: mortadelle — sausage
  • Galician: mortadela — sausage
  • Georgian: მორტადელა (morṭadela) — sausage
  • German: Mortadella — sausage
  • Greek: μορταδέλα (mortadéla) — sausage
  • Ido: mortadelo — sausage
  • Japanese: モルタデッラ (morutadera) — sausage
  • Korean: 모르타델라 (moreutadella) — sausage
  • Polish: mortadela — sausage
  • Portuguese: mortadela — sausage
  • Romanian: mortadelă — sausage
  • Romanian: mortadella — sausage
  • Russian: мортаде́лла (mortadɛ́lla) — sausage
  • Spanish: mortadela — sausage
  • Swedish: mortadella — sausage
  • Ukrainian: мортаде́ла (mortadéla) — sausage