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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

piatto di carne

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ˈpjat.to di ˈkar.ne

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Meat dish/ˈmiːt dɪʃ/
nounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #4500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Il brasato è un ottimo piatto di carne."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A prepared meal or food item whose main ingredient is animal flesh.

    "Roast beef is a traditional Sunday meat dish in many English households."
  2. 2

    A specific course in a meal consisting primarily of meat.

    "After the soup, the guests were served the main meat dish of lamb."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'meat', originating from Old English 'mēt' meaning food or nourishment, and 'dish', derived from Latin 'discus' meaning a flat plate or disc via Germanic languages. Historically, it evolved to designate any prepared culinary plate whose primary or central component is animal flesh.

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