chianti

chianti (countable and uncountable, plural chiantis)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Chianti
   • 1991, Ted Tally, The Silence of the Lambs (motion picture), spoken by Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins):

     A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

   • 2007 March 11, S.S. Fair, “Lady Slings the Booze”, in New York Times‎:

     […] 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 Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• chinait, nichait

• Chianti

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

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

chianti m (uncountable)

1. Chianti (Tuscan red wine)

• Chianti Classico

• antichi, chinati, chitina

chianti f pl

1. plural of chianta (“plant”)

chianti m pl

1. plural of chiantu (“weeping”)