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What is a ball as in meat ball?
Why not globus or globulus? Each is a word that basically means a spherical mass. The former has a wide range of uses, and would be a reasonable choice, but for 'meat ball' I should prefer the diminut …
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Greatly fruitful in Latin?
It's better to use single words of the intended meaning when they are available, as in this case, rather than invent phrases.
fructuosus means actually yielding plentiful fruit.
frugifer simply mean …
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Preparing food "al dente"
Pliny NH XV has palati gratia. It's not exactly al dente, of course, but at least it indicates that taste was referred to the palate, rather than the teeth:
oleum ipsum sale vindicatur a pinguitud …
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What exactly was a pastillus?
What you remember from years ago is probably as good a description as you will find.
Dictionaries usually agree that a pastillus was a small, round object baked from flour, which some describe as a …
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What is "old" in the age of a wine?
I believe that there's no difference between specifying the ages of people, and those of anything else.
The verb I would choose here is conficio:
Hoc vinum est XL annos confectum.
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What is plant-based or vegetarian food?
For actual vegetarian comestibles, I'd use something like oleredenda (olus, -eris + edo). It contains the essential ideas of 'vegetables' and (through the gerundive form) 'fitness to be eaten', which …
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Cibus sanus — healthy food?
My reaction was to consult the article on cibus in the Gradus ad Parnassum [1]. … On the other hand, if there isn't an exact epithet to match the 'healthy' that we apply to food, I see no reason not to use cibus sanus metonymically if the context is clear. …
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