English
mostaccioli
Mostaccioli comes from Italian mostacciolo ‘a traditional diamond-shaped Christmas sweet,…’, from Latin mustaceus ‘wedding cake’, and ultimately from mustus ‘newborn, new, fresh, perhaps lit. 'wet'’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmustus‘newborn, new, fresh, perhaps lit. 'wet'’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmustum‘must’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmustaceus‘wedding cake’
- Italianc. 1300–presentmostaccioloas mostaccioli‘a traditional diamond-shaped Christmas sweet, from Naples, made with nuts’
- Englishearliest quotation 1988mostaccioli
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmustus‘newborn, new, fresh, perhaps lit. 'wet'’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmustum‘must’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmustaceus‘wedding cake’
- Italianc. 1300–presentmostaccioloas mostaccioli‘a traditional diamond-shaped Christmas sweet, from Naples, made with nuts’
- Englishearliest quotation 1988mostaccioli
Earliest quotation: 1988, Barbara W. Siebel, Tina and Rosie's Farewell: “My husband provided the keg of beer and Tina…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *mus- ‘damp’
through Latin muscus ‘moss’
through Latin mustus ‘newborn, new, fresh, perhaps lit. 'wet'’
through Latin mustum ‘must’
Today it means
noun A type of penne pasta which resembles ziti.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin mustus / mostaccioli