carnita

Borrowed from Spanish carnita.

• (US) IPA^(key): /kɑɹˈni.tə/

carnita (plural carnitas)

1. A Tex-Mex dish featuring large amounts of slow-cooked pork held in a tortilla, similar to a taco.

• When ordering a meal, a dish or serving of these are ordered in the plural, as carnitas. Often, one carnita is not considered large enough to be a meal item on its own.

From carne +‎ -ita.

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈnita/ [kaɾˈni.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: car‧ni‧ta

carnita f (plural carnitas)

1. diminutive of carne