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pastichio

pastichio noun: a Greek dish made with cheese, chopped meat and pasta, resembling lasagna.

pastichio: a Greek dish made with cheese, chopped meat and pasta, resembling lasagna
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Noun

pastichio (countable and uncountable, plural pastichios)

  1. A Greek dish made with cheese, chopped meat and pasta, resembling lasagna.

Forms of pastichio

pluralpastichios
alternative formpastitsio

Origin of pastichio

From Italian pasticcio (“hodge-podge”), from Vulgar Latin *pasticium, from *pastīcius (“of dough”), from Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”). Doublet of pastiche.

Questions about pastichio

What does pastichio mean?
Pastichio means a Greek dish made with cheese, chopped meat and pasta, resembling lasagna.
What part of speech is pastichio?
Pastichio is a noun.
What is the plural of pastichio?
The plural of pastichio is pastichios.

Words near pastichio in the dictionary

  1. pastiches
  2. pasticheur
  3. pasticheurs
  4. pastichey
  5. pastiching
  6. pastichio
  7. pastichios
  8. pastie
  9. pastier
  10. pastiera
  11. pastieras

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