feta

[ fet-uh ]

noun

1. a soft, white, brine-cured Greek cheese made from sheep's milk or goat's milk.

feta

/ ˈfɛtə /

noun

1. a white sheep or goat cheese popular in Greece

Word History and Origins

Origin of feta¹

1935–40; < Modern Greek, short for tyrì phéta, equivalent to tyrí cheese ( Greek tyrós ) + phéta slice < Italian fetta ( fettuccine )

Word History and Origins

Origin of feta¹

Modern Greek, from the phrase turi pheta , from turi cheese + pheta , from Italian fetta a slice

Example Sentences

Mozzarella, ricotta and burrata all come from the south of Italy; feta is from Greece.

From The Daily Beast

Things get started later here: The Starbucks crush (i.e., when they run out of spinach-feta breakfast wraps) is around 11.

From The Daily Beast

You can eat it with powdered sugar, but my favorite is with feta cheese and raspberry jam or fresh raspberries.

From The Daily Beast

This watermelon, feta, and black olive salad recipe from Nigella Lawson reminds me of that.

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Watermelon is also unbelievably good with a salty cheese like feta.

From The Daily Beast

The great signal-tower of the citadel is a reconstruction of a pharo called Khalef-el-Feta, which stood here in 1068.

From Project Gutenberg

Feta is soft and as blinding white as a plate of fresh Ricotta smothered with sour cream.

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This gray and greasy, hard and brittle palate-tickler of sheep's milk made us bleat for more Feta.

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A more exciting olive cream may be made with Greek Calatma olives and Feta sheep cheese.

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We then compared Feta with thin wisps of its grown-up brother, Casere.

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