The story
- Spanish · borrowed fromtetilla“little breast”
- English todayTetilla
From Spanish tetilla (“little breast”), because the cheese is usually shaped into cones that resemble breasts or (half) pears.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
tetilla
Today it means: a cow's-milk cheese, made in Galicia, which resembles a small breast (hence the name) or a half-pear (hence the alternate name perilla). Full definition →
Spanish tetilla