English
stracciatella
Stracciatella comes from Italian stracciare ‘to tear or rip flesh’, from Latin extractus ‘extracted, removed, eradicated, prolonged’, and ultimately from trahō ‘to drag’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrahō‘to drag’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEextrahō‘to extract, remove’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEextractus‘extracted, removed, eradicated, prolonged’past participle form of extrahō
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*extractiārereconstructed
- Italianc. 1300–presentstracciareas stracciato‘to tear or rip flesh’
- Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentstracciatella
- Englishearliest quotation 1991same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtrahō‘to drag’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEextrahō‘to extract, remove’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEextractus‘extracted, removed, eradicated, prolonged’past participle form of extrahō
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*extractiārereconstructed
- Italianc. 1300–presentstracciareas stracciato‘to tear or rip flesh’
- Italian, derivedc. 1300–presentstracciatella
- Englishearliest quotation 1991same form
Earliest quotation: 1991, Stephen Fry, London: Heinemann: “‘I had the happy notion of adding an egg,’…”
The story
For further information, see the Italian entry.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- ‘to run, to drag, to pull’
train, draw, draft, drag, retreat, distraction, contraction, draught, abstraction, retract, subtraction, entreat, abstractly, 47 more
through Latin trahō ‘to drag’
contract, treat, attractive, portrait, attraction, abstract, extract, traction, trait, tractor, tract, tram, trattoria, 34 more
through Latin extrahō ‘to extract, remove’
Today it means
noun An Italian soup consisting of a meat broth and small shreds of an egg-based mixture, prepared by drizzling the mixture into boiling broth and stirring.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin trahō / stracciatella