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spanakopita

/ˌspænəˈkoʊpɪtə/

spanakopita noun: a Greek dish made with pre-cooked spinach, butter, olive oil, cheese, green onions, egg, and seasoning in phyllo pastry.

spanakopita: a Greek dish made with pre-cooked spinach, butter, olive oil, cheese, green onions, egg, and...
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Noun

spanakopita (countable and uncountable, plural spanakopitas or spanakopites)

  1. A Greek dish made with pre-cooked spinach, butter, olive oil, cheese, green onions, egg, and seasoning in phyllo pastry.
    • Soon, she’s toting a tray of miniature spanakopites, wedging it between groups of men and women who all seem to have arrived at once, as if they’ve been brought in a chartered bus to populate the house, to form a small privileged nation.1983, Hilma Wolitzer, chapter 30, in In the Palomar Arms, New York, N.Y.: Farrar/Straus/Giroux, →ISBN, page 231
    • They laughed and enjoyed baking bread, buns and spanakopites (her Mama taught her the art of making filo pastry).2012, Olympia Rizidis, “Olga Returns to Her Parents”, in This Is Our Promised Land, Brisbane, Qld.: Boolarong Press, →ISBN, page 42
  2. The same or similar dishes made without cheese.

Forms of spanakopita

pluralspanakopitas
pluralspanakopites

Origin of spanakopita

Modern Greek σπανακόπιτα (spanakópita), from σπανάκι (spanáki, “spinach”) + -ό- (-ó-, linking vowel) + πίτα (píta, “pie”). Usually short for σπανακοτυρόπιτα (spanakotyrópita, “spanakotiropita, spinach and cheese pie”), from same as above and τυρί (tyrí, “cheese”).

Questions about spanakopita

What does spanakopita mean?
Spanakopita means a Greek dish made with pre-cooked spinach, butter, olive oil, cheese, green onions, egg, and seasoning in phyllo pastry.
What part of speech is spanakopita?
Spanakopita is a noun.
How do you pronounce spanakopita?
Spanakopita is pronounced /ˌspænəˈkoʊpɪtə/.
What is the plural of spanakopita?
The plural of spanakopita is spanakopitas.

Words near spanakopita in the dictionary

  1. span-new
  2. Span.
  3. spanaemia
  4. spanaemias
  5. spanaemic
  6. spanakopita
  7. spanakopitas
  8. spanakopites
  9. spanakorizo
  10. Spanbauer
  11. Spanbauers

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