means An Italian dish of short-grain rice cooked slowly in broth, added a little at a time and stirred constantly until it turns creamy.

from From Italian risotto, a diminutive built on riso, 'rice' — itself descended from Latin oryza, which Latin borrowed from Greek oryza, a word that almost certainly traveled west from the East along ancient trade routes (compare related forms in Persian and Sanskrit). So buried in the name is the whole journey of rice across the world, ending in a creamy northern-Italian pot.