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trattoria [trah-tuh-ree-uh] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a usually inexpensive or informal restaurant or cafe specializing in Italian dishes.
Origin of trattoria 1825–35; Italian: public eating place, restaurant, equivalent to trattor(e) restaurateur (tratt(are) to treat + -ore -or2, as translation of French traiteur) + -ia -ia Examples from the Web for trattoria Historical Examples of trattoria
The sun was setting when he got down before the Trattoria del Giardinetto.
Robert Hichens
A little beneath this, and on a black board, scrawled with letters of unequal size, is the word ‘Trattoria’ or eating-house.
Charles James Lever
They had eaten leisurely and at home, or in the caff or trattoria before ten o’clock, the hour prescribed.
Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs of Giovanni Dupr
Giovanni Dupr
It ended in food being sent in from a neighboring cook-shop, or trattoria, and served upon her bedroom table.
Dorothy and other Italian Stories
Constance Fenimore Woolson
A note of charges for the trattoria, and for the hire of furniture, will be furnished to the passengers, on their applying for it.
James Barber
British Dictionary definitions for trattoria trattoria noun
- an Italian restaurant
Word Origin for trattoria C19: from Italian, from trattore innkeeper, from French traiteur, from Old French tretier to treat Word Origin and History for trattoria n.
“Italian restaurant,” 1832, from Italian trattoria, from trattore “host, keeper of an eating house,” from trattare “to treat,” from Latin tractare, frequentative of trahere (past participle tractus) “to draw” (see tract (n.1)).