Etymology

cannelloni

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Today it means: Wide tubes of pasta filled with a savoury stuffing and baked in the oven. Full definition →

Italian cannelloni ← Latin canna
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromcanna“reed”
  2. Italian · borrowed fromcannelloni
  3. English todaycannelloni

From Italian cannelloni, from Latin canna (“reed”).

Words from the same roots

Latincanna all →

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