German

Alternative forms

• Spagetti (Germanicised spelling)
• Spaghetto (very rare, jocular)

Noun

Spaghetti f ‎(genitive Spaghetti, plural Spaghetti or Spaghettis)

1. spaghetti

   Spaghetti sind mein Lieblingsessen.

   Spaghetti is my favourite dish.

   Diese Spaghetti ist auf den Boden gefallen.

   This [strand of] spaghetti fell on the floor.

2. (derogatory) an Italian

Usage notes

• Singular usage is frowned upon by some. It is, however, quite common in colloquial German and beyond.
• The plural Spaghettis is rare.

English

spaghetti (pasta)

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. A short form of 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

Italian (see Italian etymology below)

Noun

spaghetti m ‎(plural spaghettis)

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

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

Polish

Etymology

From Italian spaghetti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s̪paˈɡɛt̪t̪i/

Noun

spaghetti n

1. spaghetti

Portuguese

Noun

spaghetti m (plural spaghettis)

1. Alternative form of espaguete