🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

macchina per la pasta

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ˈmakkina per la ˈpasta

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Pasta machine/ˈpɑːstə məˌʃiːn/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #25400 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"La nonna usa sempre la macchina per la pasta fresca."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A kitchen appliance or manual device used to roll out and cut pasta dough into various shapes and thicknesses.

    "She used a manual pasta machine to roll out the fresh dough for homemade fettuccine."
  2. 2

    An automated extrusion device designed to mix, knead, and press pasta dough through interchangeable dies.

    "The electric pasta machine produced perfect penne in less than fifteen minutes."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'pasta', borrowed from Italian in the late 19th century meaning 'dough', with 'machine', derived from Latin 'machina' and Greek 'mēchanē' via Middle French. The compound noun emerged in the 20th century alongside the commercial and domestic spread of Italian culinary traditions worldwide.

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