lasagna
la-sa-gna · noun
Definitions
noun
- 1.
An Italian dish made with layers of flat pasta sheets, meat or vegetables, cheese, and sauce (typically tomato-based or bechamel), baked in an oven.
- 2.
The wide, flat sheets of pasta used to make this dish.
Forms
plural: lasagnas
Phrases & expressions
- •lasagna noodles — The flat pasta sheets used in the dish
Related words
Etymology
From Italian lasagna, which derives from Latin lasanum meaning "cooking pot," itself borrowed from Greek lasanon meaning "chamber pot" or "trivet." The word came to refer to the dish cooked in such a pot, then to the pasta itself.