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pecorino

pecorino noun: any of a family of Italian hard cheeses made from ewe's milk.

Noun

pecorino (countable and uncountable, plural pecorinos or pecorini)

  1. Any of a family of Italian hard cheeses made from ewe's milk.
    • Later that evening the two of them sat together in the tiny pantry just off the kitchen, the residue of pecorino cheese and cuts of hanging smoked pork strong and delicious around them.2022, Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, Picador, page 282

pecorino meaning in Tamil

pecorino in Tamil

ஆட்டுப் பாலாடைக்கட்டி

Forms of pecorino

pluralpecorinos
pluralpecorini

Origin of pecorino

Borrowed from Italian pecorino, from pecora (“sheep”).

Questions about pecorino

What does pecorino mean?
Pecorino means any of a family of Italian hard cheeses made from ewe's milk.
What is pecorino in Tamil?
Pecorino in Tamil is ஆட்டுப் பாலாடைக்கட்டி. See Pecorino meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pecorino?
Pecorino is a noun.
What is the plural of pecorino?
The plural of pecorino is pecorinos.

Words near pecorino in the dictionary

  1. pecoran
  2. pecorans
  3. Pecoraro
  4. Pecoraros
  5. pecorini
  6. pecorino
  7. pecorinos
  8. Pecors
  9. Pecos
  10. Pecos County
  11. PECOTA

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pecorino (page history and authors); pecorino (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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