different between lasagna vs spaghetti

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

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