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ricotta

 [ri-kot-uh, -kaw-tuh; It. ree-kawt-tah]   Origin

ri·cot·ta

   [ri-kot-uh, -kaw-tuh; It. ree-kawt-tah]
noun
a soft Italian cheese that resembles cottage cheese.
Origin:
1875–80; < Italian < Latin recocta, feminine of recoctus, past participle of recoquere to re-cook. See re-, cook1
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ricotta (rɪˈkɒtə)
 
—n
a soft white unsalted cheese made from sheep's milk, used esp in making ravioli and gnocchi
 
[C19: Italian, from Latin recocta recooked, from recoquere, from re- + coquere to cook]

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ricotta
kind of It. cottage cheese, 1879, earlier ricoct (1582), from It. ricotta, lit. "recooked," From fem. pp. of L. recoquere.
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