chianti

chianti (countable and uncountable, plural chiantis)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Chianti
   • 2007, March 11, “S.S. Fair”, in Lady Slings the Booze‎:

     […] the Spouse scavenged and sold scrap metal for a fistful of lire, ate horse meat without censure and lugged straw baskets home from the neighborhood osteria, where chianti flowed from spigots.

Borrowed from Italian chianti, after Chianti, its area of production. Through Latin from the Etruscan 𐌂𐌋𐌀𐌍𐌕𐌄 (clante).

• IPA^(key): /kjɑ̃.ti/

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• Rhymes: -i

chianti m (plural chiantis)

1. Chianti (Tuscan red wine)

• “chianti” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• chinait, nichait

• Chianti

After Chianti, its area of production. Through Latin from the Etruscan 𐌂𐌋𐌀𐌍𐌕𐌄 (clante).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkjan.ti/, [ˈk̟jän̪t̪i]
• Rhymes: -anti
• Hyphenation: chiàn‧ti

chianti m (uncountable)

1. Chianti (Tuscan red wine)

• Chianti Classico

• antichi, chinati, chitina

chianti f

1. plural of chianta

chianti m

1. plural of chiantu