Name↕ | Type↕ | Translation↕ | Synonyms↕ | Origin or main area of consumption↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Barbine | Barbine | Little beards | Barbina | |
Bavette | Bavette | Bibs | Baverine, bavettine, lasagneddi (in Sicily) | Liguria |
Bigoli | Bigoli | From bigolaro, the pasta press used to make bigoli | Fusarioi | Veneto |
Bucatini | Bucatini | Hollow straws Translated from Italian: buco, meaning "hole", and Italian: bucato, meaning "pierced". | Boccolotti, perciatellini, foratini, fidelini bucati, fide bucate, agoni bucati, spilloni bucati | Lazio |
Capellini | Capellini | Thin hair, little hair | Angel Hair, Capelli d'angelo, cabellos de angel, capelvenere, fidelini, fedelini, cappellini, sopracappellini, capellini fini, bassetti, tagliolini a nido, barbine a nido, ramicia, vrimiciddi | Liguria |
Fedelini | Fedelini | Little faithful ones | Naples, Genoa and Liguria | |
Fettuccine | Fettuccine | Little ribbons: from affettare, "to slice". | Lasagnette, fettucce, ramicce, sagne | Rome |
Linguine | Linguine | Little tongues | Bavettine, bavette fini, radichini, linguettine | — |
Maccheroni alla molinara | Maccheroni alla molinara | The miller’s wife’s pasta | Abruzzo | |
Maccheroncini di Campofilone | Maccheroncini di Campofilone | Marche | ||
Mafalde | Mafalde | Named in honor of Princess Mafalda of Savoy | Reginette, frese, tagliatelle nervate, signorine, trinette, ricciarelle, sfresatine, nastri, nastrini | Naples |
Matriciani | Matriciani | |||
Pappardelle | Pappardelle | From Tuscan papparsi, "to pig out". | Papparelle, paparele (Veneto); paspardelle (Marche) | Tuscany and northern Italy |
Perciatelli | Perciatelli | From perciare, "to hollow" | Maccheroncelli, Maccheronicini, Mezzanelli, Long Macaroni | Campania |
Pici | Pici | From appiciare, "to stick". | Lunghetti (Montalcino); pinci (Montepulciano); umbrici/ciriole (Umbria) | Tuscany |
Rustiche | Rustiche | literally the feminine plural of rustico, meaning 'rustic' | Apulia | |
Sagne 'ncannulate | Sagne 'ncannulate | Caned lasagne | ||
Spaghetti | Spaghetti | "Little strings". Spaghetti is the plural form of the Italian word spaghetto, which is a diminutive of spago, meaning "thin string" or "twine". | Fide/fidi, fidelini, ristoranti, vermicelloni, filatelli, vermicelloni giganti | Sicily |
Spaghetti alla chitarra | Spaghetti alla chitarra | Named after the guitar-like device used to cut the pasta, which has a wooden frame strung with metal wires, sheets of pasta are pressed down onto the device, and then the wires are "strummed" so the slivers of pasta fall through. | Tonnarelli, maccheroni alla chitarra | Abruzzo |
Spaghettini | Spaghettini | Thin spaghetti | Thin spaghetti | |
Spaghettoni | Spaghettoni | Thick spaghetti | Spaghetti spessi | |
Stringozzi | Stringozzi | Shoestring-like, shoelaces | — | |
Su Filindeu | Su Filindeu | The threads (or wool) of God | Sardinia | |
Tagliatelle | Tagliatelle | From the Italian tagliare, meaning "to cut". | Tagliarelli, reginelle, fresine, nastri, fettuccelle, fettucce romane, fiadi, tagliolini; tagliatelle smalzade (Trentino); lesagnetes (Veneto); bardele (Lombardia); fettuccine (Lazio); pincinelle (Colonna); tagghiarini (Sicily); taddarini (Sardinia) | Emilia-Romagna (part. Bologna) |
Tagliolini | Tagliolini | From the Italian tagliare, meaning "to cut". | Tagliolini; tagliatini (Tuscany); tajarin (Piedmont) | Liguria, Piedmont |
Testaroli | Testaroli | Based upon the testo, a terracotta or cast iron cooking device with a hot, flat surface that testaroli is traditionally cooked on | Lunigiana | |
Trenette | Trenette | |||
Tripoline | Tripoline | Signorine | ||
Vermicelli | Vermicelli | Little worms | Campania | — |
Ziti | Ziti | Bride and bridegroom (ziti is plural) in Sicilian dialect. | Boccolotti, zitoni, zituane, candele, ziti candelati | Sicily, Southern Italy |
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