mussarela
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Portuguese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
mussarela f (plural mussarelas)
- (proscribed) mozzarella (soft Italian cheese)
Usage notes[edit]
The form mussarela is proscribed due to the etymological convention that voiceless alveolar sibilants that don't descend from Latin s in words borrowed from other Romance languages must use ç instead of ss in the middle of a word. Some prescriptivist dictionaries write this word as muçarela.