Noun: gelati
| Singular | gelati |
| Plural | gelati |
Sample Sentences
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Out in Fitzroy Street, the Saturday afternoon crowds strolled the wide footpaths, licking gelati. [1988, Frank Moorhouse, editor, Fictions 88, ABC Enterprises for the Australian Broadcast Corp., page 64:]
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Gelati. Gelati. Limone, Strawberry, Chocolaty! shouts the Gelati man from the south of his face. [1993, University of Western Australia, Westerly, volumes 38–39, page 37:]
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‘Would you kids like some gelati?’ Lucia asked.[…]At home we usually had Peter′s Rainbow, but we′d had gelati heaps of times at Flash, the gelati shop in Hindley Street. [2008, Catherine McKinnon, The Nearly Happy Family, unnumbered page:]
Nouns inflected like gelati
cement works,
Old World ROM,
mythopoetics,
zhenniao,
ichimon,
seinen,
sedoka,
semese,
sentai,
senryū,
senbei,
whapuku,
whapuka,
selbri,
Cinghalese,
sayori,
sansho,
sanies,
sanmai,
sangza, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian gelati, the plural form of gelato, from Latin gelātus, derived from gelū (“frost, chill”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). See: Latin Nouns '
gelātus'.