zucchino
- 1Alternative form of zucchini, from the Italian singular. Rare in English.
The recipe calls for a single zucchino, diced and sautéed in olive oil.
At the market, every zucchino in the crate was firm and deep green.
Note
Here the Italian singular comes through intact. In Italian, zucchino is one and zucchini are many, and this spelling keeps that pairing in English, where its plural is zucchini. Speakers in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines usually say zucchini for a single squash as well, so zucchino is the less familiar choice. Writers who use it often explain it: the Keats-Shelley Review in 1986 calls a zucchino "a small marrow."
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Origin
Borrowed from Italian "zucchino," the singular form of "zucchini."