spaghetto
Pluralspaghetti
- 1One individual strand of spaghetti, the single-piece form of the pasta.
Like a single grain pulled from a handful of rice: the one unit of something usually met as a mass.
A lone spaghetto clung to the side of the pot after she drained the rest.
With his thumb and forefinger he lifted one spaghetto at a time and dunked it into the bowl of sauce before eating it.
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Note
A singular taken straight from Italian: English borrowed spaghetto, whose plural is spaghetti, so one strand keeps the Italian ending. It is rare, and it usually appears as a stickler's correction or as a joke. Henry Alford uses it to measure a dancer's tiny waist. Readers may stumble over it, which is why Rita Golden Gelman adds "(one piece of spaghetti)". In ordinary prose, "a strand of spaghetti" is the safe choice.
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Origin
Borrowed from Italian "spaghetto"; see further at spaghetti.