lasagna

Where does the word "lasagna" come from? It comes from Italian lasagna, and was adopted directly into English (1800s).

Lasagna’s story begins in Italian: lasagna meant “a flat sheet of pasta.” Originally the name for a wide flat sheet of pasta, later the layered baked dish. It reached English by 1800s as lasagna. From Greek 'laganon', a flat sheet of dough; Italian cookbooks record it from the 1300s. Today, lasagna means a baked dish made of layered flat pasta, sauce, and cheese.

1. Stage 1 · Italian · medieval lasagna "a flat sheet of pasta", originally the name for a wide flat sheet of pasta, later the layered baked dish.
2. Stage 2 · English · 1800s lasagna "a baked dish of layered flat pasta", from Greek 'laganon', a flat sheet of dough; Italian cookbooks record it from the 1300s.