gelati
Pluralgelati (some meanings)
- 1Gelato, the Italian style of ice cream, or a single serving of it, often served in a cone.
Families wandered along the beachfront on a hot Sunday afternoon, licking gelati in the sun.
Homemade gelati tastes richer than most supermarket ice cream.
Note
Australian English treats the borrowed plural as the ordinary name for the treat. It is usually a mass noun: you would like some gelati, you head to the gelati shop, and you buy from the gelati man. It can also name a single cone or cup. Outside Australia, follow the Italian plural instead: one gelato, several gelati, and gelato for the dessert itself.
- 2Plural of gelato.
We ordered two gelati and found a bench by the fountain.
The menu listed several gelati, each in its own bright color.
Note
The Italian plural kept intact: English borrowed it straight from Italian, so the -i ending marks more than one here, just as in Italian. Gelato itself goes back through Latin gelātus to gelū, "frost, chill", and a Proto-Indo-European root for cold. In this use it takes a plural verb (two gelati were melting), unlike the Australian mass noun, which treats the same spelling as singular.
gelati is a form of gelato
gelato, noun: An Italian style of ice cream made from milk and sugar with added flavorings, stirred while being deeply chilled so that ice crystals stay small. Full entry
- Spelling
- gelato → gelati: irregular plural (no -s)
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Origin
Borrowed from Italian "gelati," the plural of "gelato," from Latin "gelātus," from "gelū" ("frost, chill"), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *gel- ("cold").