ratatouille
A traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish consisting primarily of tomatoes,…A traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish consisting primarily of tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant.
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1 senses(countable, uncountable)A traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish consisting primarily of tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant.
Ratatouille
ратату́йratatúj
a vegetable stew; usually made with tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, peppers, onion, and seasonings
Examples
5 sentencesI would like a ratatouille, please.
Where can they put the ratatouille?
Why did you spit out the ratatouille?
To make ratatouille, you need lots of vegetables, especially peppers.
The Berber language is a linguistic ratatouille that no one wants.
Translations
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Origin
Unadapted borrowing from French ratatouille, from Occitan ratatolha (ratatouille is a dishUnadapted borrowing from French ratatouille, from Occitan ratatolha (ratatouille is a dish originally from Nice, and is also found in Provence), French form from diminutive prefix tat- + touiller (“to stir”), from Latin tudiculō (“grind, mix”), from tudes (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *tud-, from *(s)tewd-.
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Forms
plural: ratatouilles| Singular | ratatouille |
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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