Etymology

loukaniko

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Today it means: A Greek sausage flavoured with orange peel, fennel seed, and other seasonings, and sometimes smoked over aromatic wood. Full definition →

Greek λουκάνικο
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  1. Greek · borrowed fromλουκάνικο“pork sausage”
  2. English todayloukaniko

From Greek λουκάνικο (loukániko, “pork sausage”). Doublet of lucanica.

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