spaghetti

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A type of pasta made in long, thin strings.

   Her mother was cooking spaghetti for dinner.

2. 2
   noun

   A confusing, tangled mess of something.

   The wires behind the TV were a spaghetti of cables.

The noun is borrowed from Italian spaghetti, the plural of spaghetto (“dish of spaghetti; (rare) 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 . The verb is derived from the noun.

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