spaghetto

Italian spaghetto

spaghetto (plural spaghetti)

1. (rare, prescriptive) A single strand of spaghetti.
   • 2000, Henry Alford, Big Kiss: One Actor's Desperate Attempt to Claw His Way to the Middle, Broadway Books (2001), →ISBN, page 65:

     My first class consisted of twenty-six dancers; at least a third of these appeared to be tiny Asian women, each with a waist the approximate width of a spaghetto.

   • 2004, D. L. Stewart, "Cyclone Salad Set To Hit School Cafeterias", Dayton Daily News, 7 September 2004:

     With his thumb and forefinger he lifted one spaghetto at a time and dunked it into the bowl of sauce before eating it.

   • 2010, Rita Golden Gelman, Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World, Three Rivers Press (2010), →ISBN, page 289:

     Not once was I allowed to help make dinner, slice a tomato, boil a spaghetto (one piece of spaghetti), or wash a dish.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:spaghetto.

From spago +‎ -etto (“meliorative suffix”).

• IPA^(key): /spaˈɡet.to/, [s̪päˈɡ̟e̞t̪t̪o]
• Hyphenation: spa‧ghét‧to

spaghetto m (plural spaghetti)

1. (cooking, rare, prescriptive) strand of spaghetti
2. (cooking, in the plural) a dish of spaghetti
3. (colloquial) fright

• Greek: σπαγγέτι n (spangéti)

• spagheto