Lasagna Definition

Origin of Lasagna

• Italian a flat, wide piece of pasta possibly from Vulgar Latin lasania dish cooked in a vessel like a chamber pot, noodle dish (perhaps influenced by Latin laganum thin flat sheet of dough) from Latin lasanum chamber pot from Greek lasanon tripod, chamber pot of unknown origin

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• From Italian lasagna, lasagne, from Latin lasanum (“cooking pot"), from Ancient Greek λάσανον (lasanon, “trivet or stand for a pot"), pl. λάσανα (lasana). Others argue the Italian lasagna originally derived from the Arabic (Semitic) lawzinaj ("almond cake").

  From Wiktionary