a baked dish consisting of layers of this pasta, cheese, tomato sauce, and usually meat.
Also, la⋅sa⋅gne.
Origin: 1840–50; < It < VL *lasania cooking pot (hence, appar., the contents of the pot), for L lasanum, lasanus chamber pot < Gk lásana (pl.), orig., trivet or stand for a pot
"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."