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fanouropites

fanouropites is the plural of fanouropita.

Meaning of fanouropita

Noun

fanouropita (countable and uncountable, plural fanouropitas or fanouropites)

  1. A Greek oil-based sweet cake, traditionally Lenten and served on Saint Phanourios’ feast day on August 27, not containing any butter or eggs so that it can be eaten on holy fasting days.
    • By common consent, Kyria Rena makes an extremely delicious fanouropita. […] Here, therefore, is the way to make fanouropita which, as she used to say, has to consist of 7 ingredients.2007, Tina Zisimou, translated by Jill Pittinger, Rhodes, Rethymno: Mediterraneo Editions, →ISBN, page 78

Origin of fanouropites

From Greek φανουρόπιτες (fanourópites).

Questions about fanouropites

What is fanouropites the plural of?
Fanouropites is the plural of fanouropita.

Words near fanouropites in the dictionary

  1. fanooks
  2. fanorona
  3. fanos
  4. fanouropita
  5. fanouropitas
  6. fanouropites
  7. fanout
  8. fanouts
  9. fanpage
  10. fanpages
  11. fanpetal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fanouropites (page history and authors); fanouropita (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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