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cioccolata

chocolate

noun choh-koh-LAH-tah Rare
Food & Drink Drinks

Origin: From Nahuatl xocolātl via Spanish chocolate, borrowed into Italian.

Also means

hot chocolate

Usage Note

Cioccolata refers to chocolate as a substance or, most commonly, to a cup of hot chocolate (una cioccolata calda). The solid bar of chocolate is more often il cioccolato (masculine) or la tavoletta di cioccolato. So cioccolata and cioccolato overlap but cioccolata leans toward the drink or the general concept, while cioccolato is standard for the food product.

Examples

"D'inverno mi piace la cioccolata calda."

Natural Translation

In winter I like hot chocolate.

Literal Translation

In-winter to-me pleases the chocolate hot.

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