spaghetti

See also: Spaghetti

English

spaghetti (pasta)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian spaghetti.

Pronunciation

• enPR: spəgĕtʹē, IPA^(key): /spəˈɡɛti/
• (US) IPA^(key): [spəˈɡɛɾi]
• Rhymes: -ɛti

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. Informally, any type of pasta.
4. Electrical insulating tubing.
5. Anything tangled or confusing.
6. (countable) A spaghetti western.
7. 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

pasta

• Arabic: سْبَاغِيتِي‎‎ (sbāḡītī)
• Armenian: սպագետտի (spagetti)
• Basque: espageti
• Belarusian: спаге́ці n pl (spahjéci)
• Burmese: စပါဂတီ (ca.paga.ti)
• Catalan: espagueti (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 意大利粉 (ji³ daai⁶ lei⁶ fan²), 意粉 (ji³ fan²) (abbreviation)

  Mandarin: 意大利麵 (zh), 意大利面 (zh) (yìdàlìmiàn) (Mainland), 義大利麵, 义大利面 (yìdàlìmiàn) (Taiwan), 意大利麵條, 意大利面条 (Yìdàlì miàntiáo) (Mainland), 義大利麵條, 义大利面条 (Yìdàlì miàntiáo) (Taiwan), 意大利粉 (yìdàlìfěn) (Mainland), 義大利粉, 义大利粉 (yìdàlìfěn) (Taiwan), 意粉 (yìfěn) (Mainland, abbreviation), 義粉, 义粉 (yìfěn) (Taiwan, abbreviation), 意麵, 意面 (yìmiàn), 義麵, 义面 (yìmiàn)

• Czech: špagety f pl
• Dutch: spaghetti (nl) m
• Esperanto: spagetoj pl
• Estonian: spagetid pl
• Finnish: spagetti (fi)
• French: spaghettis (fr) m pl
• Georgian: სპაგეტი (sṗageṭi)
• German: Spaghetti (de) f pl, Spagetti (de) f pl
• Greek: μακαρόνια (el) n pl (makarónia)
• Hebrew: סְפָּגֶטִי‎‎ (he)
• Hindi: स्पघेटी (spagheṭī)
• Hungarian: spagetti (hu)
• Italian: spaghetti (it) m pl
• Japanese: スパゲッティ (supagetti)

• Korean: 스파게티 (ko) (seupageti)
• Macedonian: шпагети (mk) (špageti)
• Malay: spageti
• Mongolian: шпагетти (špagetti)
• Navajo: kʼíneeshbízhiinééz
• Northern Sami: spageahtta
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: spagetti m

  Nynorsk: spagetti m

• Persian: اسپاگتی‎‎ (fa) (espâgeti)
• Polish: spaghetti (pl) n
• Portuguese: espaguete (pt) m
• Romanian: spaghete (ro) f pl
• Russian: спаге́тти (ru) n pl (spagétti)
• Slovak: špagety f pl
• Spanish: espagueti (es) m
• Swahili: spageti
• Swedish: spagetti (sv) c, spaghetti (sv) c
• Thai: สปาเกตตี (th) (sà-bpaa-gét-dtîi)
• Turkish: spagetti (tr)
• Ukrainian: спаге́ті n pl (spahéti)
• Welsh: sbageti (cy) m

strand of spaghetti

• Basque: espageti
• Catalan: espagueti (ca) m
• Czech: špageta (cs) f
• French: spaghetti (fr) m
• Greek: μακαρόνι (el) n (makaróni)

• Italian: spaghetto (it) m
• Romanian: spaghetă f
• Russian: спаге́ттина f (spagéttina)
• Slovak: špageta f

dish containing spaghetti

• Basque: espageti
• Catalan: espagueti (ca) m
• Czech: špagety f pl
• French: spaghettis (fr) m pl
• Greek: μακαρόνια (el) n pl (makarónia)
• Italian: spaghetti m pl

• Japanese: スパゲッティ (supagetti)
• Polish: spaghetti (pl) n
• Romanian: spaghete (ro) f pl
• Russian: спаге́тти (ru) n pl (spagétti)
• Slovak: špagety f pl

informally: any type of pasta — see pasta

electrical insulating tubing

• Czech: bužírka f
• French: gaine (fr) f

• German: Isolationsschlauch m
• Slovak: bužírka f

anything tangled or confusing

• Catalan: laberint (ca) m

spaghetti code — see spaghetti code

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

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French

Etymology

From Italian spaghetti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spa.ɡe.ti/

Noun

spaghetti m (plural spaghettis)

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

Further reading

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

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Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spaˈɡetti/, [späˈɡet̪ːi]
• Hyphenation: spa‧ghét‧ti

Noun

spaghetti m pl (singular spaghetto)

1. spaghetti
2. fine strings

Related terms

• spaghettata
• spaghetteria
• spaghettini

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Polish

Etymology

From Italian spaghetti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s̪paˈɡɛt̪t̪i/

Noun

spaghetti n

1. spaghetti

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Portuguese

Noun

spaghetti m (plural spaghettis)

1. Alternative form of espaguete