# gelato

Pronunciation: say "juh-LAH-toh" US /d͡ʒəˈlɑtoʊ/, UK /dʒəˈlɑːtəʊ/

## Noun

1. 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.
   - Simple: A creamy Italian ice cream made from milk and sugar, with different flavors added.
   - _On a hot afternoon in Rome, nothing beats a cone of pistachio gelato._
   - _The pastry chef churns small batches of gelato fresh each morning._

## Origin

It was borrowed from Italian gelato ("ice cream"), from Latin gelātus, from gelū ("frost, chill"), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *gel- ("cold").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/gelato (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).