a baked dish consisting of layers of this pasta, cheese, tomato sauce, and usually meat.
Also, la·sa·gne.
Origin: 1840–50; < Italian < Vulgar Latin*lasania cooking pot (hence, apparently, the contents of the pot), for Latinlasanum, lasanus chamber pot < Greeklásana (plural), orig., trivet or stand for a pot
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"pasta cut in long, wide strips; a dish made from this," 1760, from It. (pl. is lasagne), from V.L. *lasania, from L. lasanum "a pot," from Gk. lasanon "pot with feet, trivet."