Etymology

linguine

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Today it means: Ribbons of pasta, cut from a sheet, not as wide as tagliatelle. Full definition →

Italian linguine
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  1. Italian · borrowed fromlinguine
  2. English todaylinguine

Borrowed from Italian linguine (literally “little tongues”), from lingua (“tongue”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.