Spaghetti is long thin strings of pasta. A plate of spaghetti, cook the spaghetti, spaghetti with sauce.
It is plural in Italian — one strand is a spaghetto — and English treats it as a mass noun taking a singular verb. Spaghetti junction is a road interchange of tangled ramps, and spaghetti code is a program whose flow is impossible to follow. Note that the Italian means little strings.
1nounspaghettiLong thin strings of pasta.
“The kids love spaghetti with tomato sauce.”
spaghetti is a pasta.
Italian spaghetti is the plural of spaghetto, a little string, from spago, twine.
Ancient Greek
σφάκος — apple sage (Salvia pomifera)
Latin
spagus — twine
Italian
spaghetti
English, today
spaghetti
Built from
The noun is Italian spaghetti, the plural of spaghetto (“strand of spaghetti”), from spago (“cord, string, twine; thread”) + -etto. Spago is derived from Latin spagus (“twine”), probably from Ancient Greek σφάκος (“apple sage (Salvia pomifera)”), probably from qsb-grc. The verb is derived from the noun.
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