different between lasagna vs meatloaf

English

Alternative forms

• lasagne

Etymology

From Italian lasagna (and its plural lasagne), possibly from Vulgar Latin *lasania, from Latin lasanum (“cooking pot”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (lásanon, “trivet or stand for a pot”). Others argue the Italian lasagna originally derived from the Arabic ??????????? (lawz?naj, “almond cake”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /l??zæn.j?/, /l??z?.nj?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l??z?.nj?/, /l??s?.nj?/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /l??z?.nj?/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /l??s??.nj?/, /l??z??.nj?/

Noun

lasagna (plural lasagnas or lasagne or lasagnes)

1. A flat sheet of pasta.
2. An Italian baked dish comprising layers of such pasta with various ingredients (usually a meat ragù (chiefly Bolognese), a fish ragù or a vegetarian/vegetable ragù with bechamel sauce)
3. (by extension) A combination or layering of things.
   • 1996, Lance Olsen, Time Famine: A Novel

     Kristofer'd gotten it through his head shortly after their arrival to swim naked in the lake, such as it was, and his skin blemished into a lasagna of red hives, white welts, and disarming yellowish spots.

   • 2008, Body & Soul

     Unfortunately, typical mattresses are often a lasagna of nonbiodegradable synthetics, pesticides, and potentially carcinogenic toxins.

   • 2011, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Inception and Philosophy: Ideas to Die for, Open Court Publishing (?ISBN), page 280:

     It's sort of a lasagna of ideas about time and dreams.

   • 2013, Molly Harper, How to Run with a Naked Werewolf, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN)

     “Everything about us is just one layer of lies after another. We're a lasagna of lies. This is a terrible basis for a relationship.”

Usage notes

• In Italian, lasagna refers to one flat sheet of pasta and its plural form, lasagne, refers to the dish. This distinction is also observed in English, but only rarely in American English.
• When the dish is referred to as lasagne (rather than lasagna), lasagnes is sometimes found as the plural form, referring to multiple dishes or varieties.

Translations

Anagrams

• Alagnas, Laganas, galanas

Italian

Etymology

Possibly from Vulgar Latin *lasania, from Latin lasanum (“cooking pot”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (lásanon, “trivet or stand for a pot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?za?.?a/
• Hyphenation: la?sà?gna
• Rhymes: -a??a

Noun

lasagna f (plural lasagne)

1. (cooking, food) a food made of flat sheets of pasta alternated with condiments
2. (cooking, chiefly in the plural) a dish of lasagna

Derived terms

• lasagne alla bolognese (“Bolognese lasagna, Bologna-style lasagna, lasagna with Bolognese”)
• lasagne di pesce (“fish lasagna, lasagna with fish ragù”)
• lasagne di verdure (“vegetarian lasagna, lasagna with vegetable ragù”)

English

Alternative forms

• meat loaf

Etymology

meat +? loaf.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mitlo?f/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mi?tl??f/
• Hyphenation: meat?loaf

Noun

meatloaf (countable and uncountable, plural meatloaves)

1. A dish of ground meat (usually made from ground beef, although lamb, pork, veal, venison, poultry and seafood are also used) formed into a loaf shape, mixed with egg and breadcrumbs, then baked or smoked, and usually served in slices.
   • 1876, “Farm and Household. Selected Recipes.” [1], The Grange Advance (Red Wing, Minn.)

     Meat Loaf.—Chop fine whatever cold meat you have, fat and lean together, add pepper, salt and finely chopped onion, two slices of bread which have been soaked in milk, and one egg mix well together and bake in form. This makes an admirable tea or breakfast dish.

   For his meatloaf, he mixed the meat, eggs, chopped onion, breadcrumbs, tomato sauce and a can of beer according to the instructions, then diced in an apple he had lying around.

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