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spaghetti

Pronunciation: /spəˈɡɛti/

The English word “spaghetti” has 14 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
  2. A dish that has spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.
  3. An Italian person.
  4. Something physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled.
  5. Electrical insulating tubing or electrical wiring.
  6. Roads forming a complex junction, especially one with multiple levels on a motorway.
  7. Disorderly strands of filament, caused by an error during the printing process.
  8. Something confusing or intricate.

verb

  1. To serve (someone) spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).
  2. To cause (someone or something) to become, or appear to become, longer and thinner; to stretch.
  3. To cause (something) to become tangled.
  4. To eat spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).
  5. To become, or appear to become, longer and thinner.
  6. To become tangled.

Etymology

The noun is borrowed from Italian spaghetti, the plural of spaghetto (“strand of spaghetti”), from spago (“cord, string, twine; thread”) + -etto (diminutive suffix). Spago is derived from Latin spagus (“twine”), probably from Ancient Greek σφάκος (sphákos, “apple sage (Salvia pomifera)”), probably from Pre-Greek. The verb is derived from the noun.

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