Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·italian ·1870s
Pasta
from pasta
- Meaning
- Dough, paste — generic for shaped wheat-based foods.
- Source word
- pasta
- Route into English
- Italian cookery → English food vocabulary; "macaroni" and "spaghetti" arrived earlier as specific shapes.
- Arrived
- 1870s
English borrows.
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