Etymology

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Today it means: A rice croquette filled with mozzarella or meat, originally from Rome. Full definition →

Italian supplì ← French surprise
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The story

  1. French · derived fromsurprise
  2. Italian · borrowed fromsupplì
  3. English todaysuppli

Borrowed from Italian supplì, from French surprise, because of the supposedly unexpected filling. Doublet of surprise.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.