I'd never heard of Vitello tonnato before today. Sounds like someone's name.
Here's the video that introduced me to it. If you know your European languages, you can guess that the "-ato" in tonnato is like the "-ed" ending in English ("-ado" in Spanish does the same thing: complicado = complicated), and you can further guess that the "tonn" part has something to do with tuna (in French, tuna is le thon; in German, it's der Thunfisch; in Spanish, it's el atún, which leaves Italian: il tonno), so tonnato probably means "tuna'ed." But beyond that, I had no clue what the dish was until I watched how it was made.
Very interesting.
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