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gelato.

An Italian variant of ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavourings. The ingredients are supercooled while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form.

6 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/d͡ʒəˈlɑtoʊ/General-American/dʒəˈlɑːtəʊ/Received-Pronunciation
  1. An Italian variant of ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavourings. The ingredients are supercooled while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form.

    uncountable · usually
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Italian gelato (“ice cream”), from Latin gelātus, derived from gelū (“frost, chill”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

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