Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·italian ·1920s
Gelato
from gelato
- Meaning
- Frozen — Italian dense-style ice cream with lower fat than American ice cream.
- Source word
- gelato
- Route into English
- Italian artisanal tradition → English markets by 1920s; modernised again with the gelato-shop boom of the 1990s.
- Arrived
- 1920s
English borrows.
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