tortellini

[ tawr-tl-ee-nee; Italian tawr-tel-lee-nee ]

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plural nounItalian Cooking.

small rounds of pasta, filled, as with a meat or cheese stuffing, and then shaped into rings and boiled: often served in broth or with a sauce.

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Origin of tortellini

1905–10; <Italian, plural of tortellino, diminutive of tortello stuffed pastry, diminutive (with gender change) of torta cake; see torte

usage note For tortellini

See zucchini.

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How to use tortellini in a sentence

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British Dictionary definitions for tortellini

tortellini

/ (ˌtɔːtəˈliːnɪ) /

noun

pasta cut into small rounds, folded about a filling, and boiled

Origin of tortellini

from Italian, diminutive of tortelli a type of pie, ultimately from Late Latin tōrta a round loaf or cake; see torte

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