spanakopita
A Greek dish made with pre-cooked spinach, butter, olive oil, cheese, green onions,…A Greek dish made with pre-cooked spinach, butter, olive oil, cheese, green onions, egg, and seasoning in phyllo pastry.
» Melissa gleefully prepared moussaka and spanakopita for her family.
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2 senses(countable, uncountable)A Greek dish made with pre-cooked spinach, butter, olive oil, cheese, green onions, egg, and seasoning in phyllo pastry.
(countable, uncountable)The same or similar dishes made without cheese.
Examples
2 sentencesMelissa gleefully prepared moussaka and spanakopita for her family.
Tom ordered a spanakopita.
deTom bestellte sich Spanakopita. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Origin
Modern Greek σπανακόπιτα (spanakópita), from σπανάκι (spanáki, “spinach”) + -ό- (-ó-, linkModern Greek σπανακόπιτα (spanakópita), from σπανάκι (spanáki, “spinach”) + -ό- (-ó-, linking vowel) + πίτα (píta, “pie”). Usually short for σπανακοτυρόπιτα (spanakotyrópita, “spanakotiropita, spinach and cheese pie”), from same as above and τυρί (tyrí, “cheese”).
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Forms
plural: spanakopitas / spanakopites| Singular | spanakopita |
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Word family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.