The name mortadella comes from Latin and means "sausage seasoned with myrtle". Mortadella is a large salami made from cooked and minced pork, mixed with small cubes of pork fat and seasoned with pepper, pistachio nuts or myrtle.
The correct pronunciation of mortadella is mohr-tah-DEHL-lah. The stress is on the capital letters.
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