Etymograph

English

lasagna

Lasagna comes from Italian lasagna ‘a dish of lasagna’.

  1. Italianc. 1300–presentlasagna1‘a dish of lasagna’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1996lasagna1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English lasagna
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1996, Lance Olsen: “Kristofer'd gotten it through his head shortly after their…”.

Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Italianc. 1300–presentlasagnaWiktionary, English lasagna‘a dish of lasagna’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1996lasagnaWiktionary, English lasagna. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1996, Lance Olsen: “Kristofer'd gotten it through his head shortly after their…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- ‘to cook, roast’

land, lend, lawn, lumbar, loma, loin, 11 more

Today it means

noun A flat sheet of pasta.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “lasagna”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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