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noun hard dry sharp-flavored Italian cheese; often grated
originBorrowed from Middle French parmesan, from an earlier Vulgar Latin *parmēsānus, restructuring of Latin parmēnsis (from Latin Parma). Compare Italian parmigiano, Catalan parmesà, Portuguese parmesão, Sicilian parmisanu, Spanish parmesano
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0