noun
- a soft Italian cheese that resembles cottage cheese.
noun
- a soft white unsalted cheese made from sheep’s milk, used esp in making ravioli and gnocchi
kind of Italian cottage cheese, 1877, earlier ricoct (1580s), from Italian ricotta, literally “recooked,” from fem. past participle of Latin recoquere, from re- “again” (see re-) + coquere “to cook” (see cook (n.)).