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carne

meat

noun KAHR-neh Less Common
Food & Drink Meat

Origin: from Latin caro

Also means

flesh

Usage Note

Carne is the everyday word for meat and also human flesh, as in in carne e ossa ('in the flesh', literally 'in flesh and bones'). The idiom essere carne e unghia describes two inseparable people.

Examples

"Non mangio carne rossa."

Natural Translation

I don't eat red meat.

Literal Translation

Not I-eat meat red.

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