Crossword-Solution: PATATA
We have 2 clues for the answer “PATATA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Spanish potato. | 1 answer |
| Vegetable, in Italy. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PATATA (5)
The English name was borrowed from the Spanish "patata", which was itself borrowed from a native word for the "yam" in the dialect of Hayti.
Their cavalry also came from all sides at full gallop, patati, patata, patati, patata, pa, ta, ta, patata pata, ta, eager to be in the thick of the fighting, to give and take their share of the blows.
Thus in Italy also men called the potato 'tartufo,' but added 'bianco,' the white truffle; a name now giving way to 'patata.' Thus was it, too, with the French; who called it apple, but 'apple of the earth'; even as in many of the provincial dialects of Germany it bears the name of 'erdapfel' or earth-apple to this day.
Para tus hijos la procera palma Su vario feudo cría, Y el ananás sazona su ambrosía: Su blanco pan la yuca, 10 Sus rubias pomas la patata educa, Y el algodón despliega al aura leve Las rosas de oro y el vellón de nieve.
All she had to do was to go with me to _Mother Patata's_ well-known establishment, and there to be present while I conversed with one of its fair and frail inhabitants.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1950–1961).