| Headword | Cotechino from Modena |
| Domain and subdomain | Food – meat products |
| Grammatical label | Noun, sing. |
| Definition | Cotechino Modena or Cotechino di Modena is a fresh sausage made from a mixture of pork, fatback, and pork rind, flavoured, placed in a casing and to be consumed boiled. (1) |
| Note | Cotechino Modena is a product with a PGI (Protected Geographical Indication). It consists of noble parts of pig and rind, as prescribed by tradition. The meat is minced and delicately flavoured with spices and herbs (cloves, pepper, nutmeg, cinnamon and wine) and then stuffed into casings. (2) Its consumption extends throughout Italy during the Christmas holidays. (3) |
| Context | Because of the pork rind, it is considered a “poor” food, but it has nevertheless won a place of honour at the table on Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Cotechino di Modena has earned PGI recognition. (4) |
| Phonetic transcription | [kote’kino frəm ‘mᴐ:dena] |
| Synonyms / Variants | ND |
| Etymology | The noun derives from cótica singular, feminine [from Latin *cŭtĭca, originated from cutis «cute, pelle», Eng. skin, dermis], through northern dialects. (5) |
| Product image |  (6) |
| Equivalents | ITA Cotechino Modena ESP Cotechino Módena FRA Cotechino Modena RO Cotechino Modena |
| Note of the equivalents | The Italian noun is masculine and singular. “Modena” can be used either alone or preceded by the preposition indicating the place of origin and production. |
| Institution | Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali |
| Date | 26/07/2021 |
| Last modified | 25/04/2023 |
| Author Revisor | Chiara Buschi Gloria Zanella |
| Sources | (1) AA. VV., Dizionario di enogastronomia in cinque lingue, Academia Universa Press – Edizioni Plan, Milano, 2012; (2) https://www.modenaigp.it/la-lavorazione-del-cotechino-modena-igp/ (3) https://www.agraria.org/prodottitipici/cotechinomodenacotechinocremonese.htm (4) https://www.lacucinaitaliana.com/glossary/cotechino?refresh_ce= (5) Giovanni Treccani, Enciclopedia Treccani – Enciclopedia online, ed. Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/ (6) http://www.turismocongusto.it/ |
