mussarela

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Noun

mussarela f (plural mussarelas)

  1. mozzarella (soft Italian cheese)

Usage notes

The form mussarela is prescribed, due to the orthograpic rule stating that words borrowed from other languages must use ç, not ss in the middle of a word. Some prescriptivist dictionaries write this word as muçarela.

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