Etymology

chipolata

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Today it means: A type of sausage from Europe, typically of seasoned coarsely ground pork. Full definition →

French chipolata ← Italian cipollata
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The story

  1. Italian · derived fromcipollata“onion confit”
  2. French · borrowed fromchipolata
  3. English todaychipolata

From French chipolata, from Italian cipollata (“onion confit”), itself from cipolla (“onion”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.