carnitas

English

Carnitas

Etymology

From Spanish carnitas, diminutive of carne (“meat”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

carnitas pl (plural only)

1. A Mexican dish involving strips of braised or roasted pork.
   • 2007 January 23, Scott Lindquist, As Told To Christopher Elliott, “A Yankee Chef With a Mexican Flavor”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     I was trying to bring supplies across the border to cook a trio of ceviche — marinated raw fish in lime — and duck carnitas with mole coloradito, for the festival’s gala dinner.

See also

• carnitas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• acritans, anticars, arcanist, catrinas

Spanish

Etymology

From carne (“meat”) +‎ -ita (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈnitas/ [kaɾˈni.t̪as]
• Rhymes: -itas
• Syllabification: car‧ni‧tas

Noun

carnitas f pl (plural only)

1. carnitas
2. plural of carnita

Further reading

• “carnitas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10