Which of these four types of pasta takes its name from a vegetable?
For many people, the little parcels known as 'ravioli' (stuffed with meat or cheese or other goodies) is one of tastiest forms of pasta. The origin of the name lies in Italian dialect. The Italian -- and Latin -- word for turnip is 'rapa'. In Italian dialect this is 'rava' and so 'un raviolo' literally means a 'little turnip' or, nowadays, one of these delicious little pasta parcels. 'Ravioli' is the plural of 'raviolo'. The other three suggested answers are also types of stuffed pasta. Here is the meaning of their names:
Cannelloni: 'Large reeds'
Cappelletti: 'Little caps'
Tortellini: 'Little pies'
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21 Comments
Patricia Mastromonico
OMG!!I'M AN ITALIAN & I GOT IT WRONG!!!!OMG!!!
Pat Salloum
Not. a. clue. Majority didn't know either.
catmom
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catmom
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John McLardie
Vague definition. No one can say with any certainty what the etymology of the word ravioli is.
Peggy Brown
I got it right I cook them all the time.
EIFEL
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Abbey Downton Katiejane
Got me, as I picked tortellini. But after the right up made sense.
Johnny Rock
And yet in the word Cappelletti is the word apple.
Carol Lauter
Very interesting.
Rhoda Welker Adam
Picked cappelletti.
Kate Foley
JoAnn Ivaldi, I think the beans are cannellini beans
Bill Coe
The origin of the word is unknown; it has frequently been a considered of the Italian regional rava (a variant of rapa) meaning ‘turnip’, with the assumption that the filling originally consisted of turnips, but this does not appear to have been the case. The post-classical Latin raviolus and rabiola – both denoting a kind of meatball – have also been suggested.
Rachel Weatherby
picked Cappelletti thinking it might have to do with mushroom caps!! wrong!
Victoria Jackson-pownall
My father, Italian 1st gen, used to bring home from the farmers market, a delicious leafy green vegetable he called rape (accent on the "e") - it's taken me years to discover that it was baby turnip greens! But I got the answer by elimination!