pecorino

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

pecorino (countable and uncountable, plural pecorinos or pecorini)

1. Any of a family of Italian hard cheeses made from ewe's milk.
   • 2022, Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, Picador, page 282:

     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.

• operonic

From Italian pecorino.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpekorino/, [ˈpe̞ko̞ˌrino̞]

pecorino

1. pecorino (cheese)

• “pecorino”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

From pecora +‎ -ino.

• IPA^(key): /pe.koˈri.no/
• Rhymes: -ino
• Hyphenation: pe‧co‧rì‧no

pecorino (feminine pecorina, masculine plural pecorini, feminine plural pecorine)

1. (relational) sheep
2. (figurative) sheeplike, sheepish

   Synonym: pecoresco

pecorino m (plural pecorini)

1. pecorino (cheese made with sheep milk)

• pecorino romano
• pecorino sardo

• pecora

• Procione, pecoroni, preconio, procione

• IPA^(key): /pekoˈɾino/ [pe.koˈɾi.no]
• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: pe‧co‧ri‧no

pecorino m (plural pecorinos)

1. pecorino

pecorino ?

1. pecorino (cheese)