English

A spaghetto

Noun

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 9780767907415, 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 9780307588029, 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.

Italian

Etymology

Diminutive of spago

Pronunciation

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

Noun

spaghetto m ‎(plural spaghetti)

1. (rare, prescriptive) strand of spaghetti
2. (colloquial) fright

Descendants

• Greek: σπαγγέτι n ‎(spangéti)

See also

• spagheto