მაკარონი • (makaroni)=macaroni

მაკარონი • (makaroni)=macaroni

WIKTIONARY: Etymology

From Italian maccaroni, obsolete variant of maccheroni (“macaroni”), plural of maccherone, of uncertain origin.

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:

macaroni (n.)

"tube-shaped food made of dried wheaten paste" [Klein], 1590s, from southern Italian dialectal maccaroni (It. maccheroni), plural of maccarone, name for a kind of pasty food, possibly from maccare "bruise, batter, crush," of unknown origin, or from late Gk. makaria "food made from barley." Used after c.1764 to mean "fop, dandy" (e.g. "Yankee Doodle") because it was an exotic dish at a time when certain young men who had traveled the continent were affecting French and Italian fashions and accents. There is said to have been a Macaroni Club in Britain, which was the immediate source of the term.

“”””””medieval Greek word "makaronia" (: funeral dinner based pasta). The makaronia in turn comes from the ancient Greek word “μακαρία= "blessed", which was none other than the psychopita=pie for the souls, ie, a piece of bread in the shape of melomakaronou=honey+cookies, which offered after the funeral””””””