'Risotto' is Italian for 'grand rice' — from 'riso' (rice) + augmentative '-otto.' A dish named for scale.
An Italian dish of rice cooked in stock with other ingredients such as meat or seafood.
From Italian 'risotto,' diminutive of 'riso' (rice), from Old French 'ris,' from Italian and Old Occitan 'ris,' from Medieval Latin 'rīsum,' from Byzantine Greek 'oryza,' from a probable Indo-Iranian source — Sanskrit 'vrīhiḥ' (rice), related to Tamil 'arisi' and Dravidian languages. The PIE connection is uncertain; rice is a South/Southeast Asian grain that entered the European vocabulary through trade routes. The word entered Greek, then Latin, then spread across
'Rice,' 'risotto,' 'riz' (French), and 'arroz' (Spanish) all trace to the same ancient word for rice, but they took different routes. English 'rice' came through Old French from Latin 'oryza,' from Greek, from an Asian source. Spanish 'arroz' came through Arabic 'ar-ruzz' from the same Asian source. The grain traveled west along the Silk Road