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ri·cot·ta 
[ri-kot-uh, -kaw-tuh; It. ree-kawt-tah] Pronunciation Key
[ri-kot-uh, -kaw-tuh; It. ree-kawt-tah] Pronunciation Key –noun
| a soft Italian cheese that resembles cottage cheese. |
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| ri·cot·ta
(rĭ-kŏt'ə) Pronunciation Key
n.
[Italian, from Latin recocta, feminine past participle of recoquere, to cook again : re-, re- + coquere, to cook; see pekw- in Indo-European roots.] |
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ricotta
ricotta
kind of It. cottage cheese, 1879, earlier ricoct (1582), from It. ricotta, lit. "recooked," From fem. pp. of L. recoquere.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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