tramezzino

Meaning

Noun

a sandwich made from two or three slices of pancarrè, cut diagonally

Verb

1. (form-of, plural, present, subjunctive, third-person) inflection of tramezzare:
2. (form-of, imperative, plural, third-person) inflection of tramezzare:

Concepts

sandwich

🥪

toast

Synonyms

panino

sandwich

🥪

panino imbottito

panino ripieno

Translations

sandwich

🥪

emparedado

🥪

sanduíche

🥪

Sandwich

🥪

σάντουιτς

sandwich

sandwich

🥪

boterham

sandes

🥪

bocadillo

sándwich

🥪

entrepà

🥪

belegtes Brot

sandviç

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Hyphenated as

tra‧mez‧zì‧no

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tra.medˈd͡zi.no/

Etymology

Coined as a substitute term for sandwich during the Italianization process of Fascist Italy. By surface analysis, tramezzo (literally “in the middle”) + -ino (diminutive suffix).