different between gnocchi vs spaghetti

English

Etymology

From Italian gnocchi, plural of gnocco (“dumpling”, literally “lump”), from nocchio (“knot (in wood)”), a borrowing from Lombardic knohha (“knuckle, bone, knot”), from Proto-Germanic *knuk? (“bone”), *kneukaz (“tuber, knuckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *gnew- (“knot, bundle”). Cognate with Middle High German knoche (“bone, knot”) (modern German Knochen), Middle Dutch knoke (“knuckle, knob, knot”), Swedish knoge (“knuckle”). More at knuckle.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?nj?.ki/; IPA^(key): /?n?.ki/ (sometimes proscribed)
• (US) enPR: ny??k?, IPA^(key): /?njo?.ki/

Noun

gnocchi (plural gnocchi or gnocchis)

1. Italian pasta-like dumplings made of potato or semolina.

Translations

Further reading

• gnocchi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Finnish

Etymology

From Italian gnocchi.

Noun

gnocchi

1. gnocchi

   Söin gnoccheja lounaaksi.

   I ate gnocchi for lunch.

Usage notes

The Italian plural word has been adopted into Finnish as a singular.

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.ki/

Noun

gnocchi m (plural gnocchis)

1. gnocchi

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k.ki/

Noun

gnocchi m pl

1. plural of gnocco
2. a dish of gnocchi

Descendants

• ? Catalan: nyoqui
• ? English: gnocchi
• ? Finnish: gnocchi
• ? French: gnocchi
• ? Korean: ?? (nyoki)
• ? Polish: gnocchi
• ? Spanish: ñoqui

Polish

Etymology

From Italian gnocchi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k.k?i/

Noun

gnocchi n (indeclinable)

1. gnocchi

Further reading

• gnocchi in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• gnocchi in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Etymology

From Italian spaghetti pl.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sp?g?t??, IPA^(key): /sp????ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): [sp?????i]
• Rhymes: -?ti

Noun

spaghetti (usually uncountable, plural spaghettis)

1. A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
2. A dish that has spaghetti as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.
3. (informal) Any type of pasta.
4. (informal) Electrical insulating tubing.
5. (informal) Anything tangled or confusing.
6. (countable) A spaghetti western.
7. (informal, programming) Spaghetti code.

Usage notes

• An individual strand is called a piece of spaghetti or a strand of spaghetti, or rarely spaghetto, derived from the Italian form.
• Often used with another noun to convey a spaghetti-like attribute, such as thinness (spaghetti strap, spaghetti stripes), Italianness (spaghetti western), flexibility (spaghetti limbs), or intertwining strands (spaghetti code, spaghetti junction, spaghetti grid)

Derived terms

• Flying Spaghetti Monster
• spaghetti bolognese
• spaghetti code
• spaghettification
• spaghetti junction
• spaghetti strap
• spaghetti western
• sketti, pasghetti (childish, nonstandard)

Related terms

• spaghettini
• spaghettoni

Translations

Verb

spaghetti (third-person singular simple present spaghettis, present participle spaghettiing, simple past and past participle spaghettied)

1. (intransitive) To become, or appear to become longer and thinner.
   • 2006, Richard E. Grant, The Wah-Wah Diaries: The Making of a Film - Page 11

     "Call it what you will, but as soon as you think you've got your dish ready to serve, it spaghettis all over the place and you have to clean up the mess."

   The cables spaghettied onto the shoulder of the technician.

2. (transitive) To stretch to become longer and thinner.

   He spaghettied the referee when he landed on him.

See also

• noodle
• pasta
• spag

Anagrams

• pasghetti

French

Etymology

From Italian spaghetti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spa.?e.ti/

Noun

spaghetti m (plural spaghettis)

1. (usually in the plural) spaghetti
2. strand of spaghetti

Further reading

• “spaghetti” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Plural of spaghetto, diminutive of spago (“cord, string”), from Latin spacus (“string”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spa??etti/, [spä??et??i]
• Hyphenation: spa?ghét?ti

Noun

spaghetti m pl

1. plural of spaghetto
2. a dish of spaghetti
3. fine strings

Related terms

• spaghettata
• spaghetteria
• spaghettini

Polish

Etymology

From Italian spaghetti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spa???t.ti/

Noun

spaghetti n (indeclinable)

1. spaghetti

Further reading

• spaghetti in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• spaghetti in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

spaghetti m (plural spaghettis)

1. Alternative form of espaguete