Etymology

puttanesca

put·ta·nes·ca
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Today it means: A cooking sauce made from tomato flavoured with garlic, anchovies, capers and olives, created in Naples. Full definition →

Italian puttanesca
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  1. Italian · borrowed fromputtanesca
  2. English todayputtanesca

Borrowed from Italian puttanesca (feminine of puttanesco, literally “whorish, sluttish”), from puttana (“whore”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.