lesso

See also: lessò

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈles.so/
• Rhymes: -esso
• Hyphenation: lés‧so

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin ēlixus (“boiled, soaked”). Compare the regular thematic counterpart lessato, from lessare (“to boil”). Bentley analyses/analyzes the former as agentless and derived from a change-of-state root, and the latter as agentive and derived from a verbal base.

Adjective

lesso (feminine lessa, masculine plural lessi, feminine plural lesse)

1. boiled
   • 1516, Giovanni Rosselli, “Libro primo per dare ad intendere qual carne si debbia fare arosto, et quale alesso [First book, to make understandable which meats should be roasted, and which ones boiled]”, in Epulario‎^[2]; republished, Treviso: Girolamo Righettini, 1643:

     Bona carne groſſa de buoue, & de vacca vuol eſſer leſſa

     [Bona carne grossa de buove, et de vacca vuol esser lessa]

     Good, big [pieces of] beef should be boiled

Derived terms

• allesso

Related terms

• lessare

Noun

lesso m (plural lessi)

1. (uncountable) boiled meat
2. a dish consisting of boiled meat

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

lesso

1. first-person singular present indicative of lessare

Anagrams

• solse