provolone

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian provolone, augmentative of provola.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹoʊvəloʊn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɹoʊvəˈloʊni/

Noun

provolone (usually uncountable, plural provolones)

1. A semi-hard cheese made of whole milk from cows. It comes primarily from Southern Italy.

Translations

type of cheese

French: provolone (fr) m Italian: provolone (it) m Japanese: プロヴォローネ (purovorōne) Korean: 프로볼로네 (peurobollone)

Further reading

• provolone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

provolone

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian pruvuluni. By surface analysis, provola +‎ -one.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pro.voˈlo.ne/
• Rhymes: -one
• Hyphenation: pro‧vo‧ló‧ne

Noun

provolone m (plural provoloni)

1. augmentative of provola
2. provolone (semi-hard cheese made of whole milk from cows)

Further reading

• provolone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• The Diner's Dictionary: Word Origins of Food and Drink, 2nd ed., Oxford, 2002.