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lat•ke  (lät′kə),USA pronunciation n. [Jewish Cookery.]
  1. Fooda pancake, esp. one made of grated potato.
  • Greek elá(i)dion, derivative of élaion oil
  • East Slavic; compare Byelorussian (g)latka, dialect, dialectal form of aladka kind of pancake, Old Russian oladǐya (Russian olád’ya), probably
  • Yiddish
  • 1925–30

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