vermicelli
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English
Etymology
From Italian vermicelli, plural of vermicello (“little worm”), from verme (“worm”), from Latin vermis + -cello (“diminutive suffix”).
Noun
vermicelli (usually uncountable, plural vermicellis)
- Long, slender pasta, similar to spaghetti, only thinner.
- 1831 October 15, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, “Introduction”, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , published 31 October 1831, →OCLC, pages ix–x:
- They talked of the experiments of Dr. Darwin, (I speak not of what the Doctor really did, or said that he did, but, as more to my purpose, of what was then spoken of as having been done by him,) who preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case, till by some extraordinary means it began to move with voluntary motion.
- Any type of long, thin noodles, as in rice vermicelli.
- (UK) Chocolate sprinkles.
Descendants
- → Irish: veirmisilí
Translations
long, slender pasta
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Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
vermicelli m pl
- plural of vermicello
Portuguese
Noun
vermicelli m (plural vermicellis)
- vermicelli (long, slender pasta)
- Synonym: aletria