carnitas

From Spanish carnitas, diminutive of carne (“meat”).

carnitas pl (plural only)

1. A Mexican dish involving strips of braised or roasted pork.
   • 2007 January 23, Scott Lindquist, As Told To Christopher Elliott, “A Yankee Chef With a Mexican Flavor”, in New York Times‎:

     I was trying to bring supplies across the border to cook a trio of ceviche — marinated raw fish in lime — and duck carnitas with mole coloradito, for the festival’s gala dinner.

• carnitas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• acritans, anticars, arcanist, catrinas

carne (“meat”) +‎ -ita (diminutive suffix)

carnitas f pl (plural only)

1. carnitas

• “carnitas” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.