Meanings
plural panini
- A type of grilled sandwich made of a small loaf of bread, cut horizontally, filled with meat such as salami or ham, cheese or other food.
There’s a communal slate table where patrons can sit and drink shade-grown coffee or eat a panino stuffed with Julia Hermosa’s locally grown arugula and Sprout Creek Farm cheese.
2009 June 7, Quick Bite/Bedford Hills, “A Farm Market in a Store”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*peh₂-der.?
- Latinpānem
- Italianpane
- Italianpanino
- Englishpanino
Borrowed from Italian panino.
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