maccherone

• maccarone (obsolete)

Disputed. Possibly from late Byzantine Greek μακαρία (makaría, “food made from barley”), from Ancient Greek μακάριος (makários, “favored by gods, blessed”), but said by some to be from Latin maccāre (“bruise, batter, crush”) and massa (“bulk, mass”). Compare Sicilian maccarruni (“a single piece of macaroni”) and English macaroni.

• IPA^(key): /mak.keˈro.ne/
• Rhymes: -one
• Hyphenation: mac‧che‧ró‧ne

maccherone m (plural maccheroni)

1. (foods) macaroni (type of pasta)

• Mainly used in the plural.

• maccheronata
• maccheronico
• maccheroncino

• → Catalan: macarró
• → English: macaroni, maccaroni; maccheroni
  • → Japanese: マカロニ (makaroni)
  • → Korean: 마카로니 (makaroni)
  • → Scottish Gaelic: macaroni
• → French: macaroni
• → French: macaron
  • → Catalan: macarró
  • → English: macaron
    • English: macaroon
• → Piedmontese: macaron
• → German: Makkaroni

• Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “maccherone”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
• “maccherone”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.