Dal vocabolario italiano: Piccata

From Italian piccata ‘larded’, past participle of piccarsi ‘prick oneself’.
IPA: /pɪˈkɑ:tə/

1. Sliced, sautéed and served with lemon, parsley and butter sauce.
2. 1999 : Rattle-snake piccata with grapes and figs, old Brown Betty with a yellow wig — Tom Waits, ‘Filipino Box Spring Hog’

1. prick (act of pricking)
2. a dish of escalope of veal fried in butter with parsley and lemon

Pronuncia
IPA: /pɪˈkɑ:tə/

Etimologia
From Italian piccata ‘larded’, past participle of piccarsi ‘prick oneself’.