caponata

[ kap-uh-nah-tuh ]

noun
  1. a spread of chopped eggplant, tomatoes, onions, and capers, and sometimes pine nuts, anchovies, and olives, cooked in olive oil.

Origin of caponata

1
First recorded in 1930-35; from Italian caponata, capponata, earlier Sicilian dialect capunata “sailor's salad of stale bread or hardtack soaked with oil, vinegar, and minced vegetables,” from Italian cappone, capon (from Latin cāpō-, stem of cāpō “castrated cock”) + -ata (from Latin -āta ); see origin at capon, -ade1

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British Dictionary definitions for caponata

caponata

/ (ˌkæpəˈnɑːtə) /


noun
  1. (in Sicilian cookery) a dish of fried seasoned aubergine and other vegetables, served as an appetizer

Origin of caponata

1
Italian

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