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tor⋅tel⋅li⋅ni
[tawr-tl-ee-nee; It. tawr-tel-lee-nee] 
–plural noun Italian Cookery.
| small rounds of pasta, filled, as with a meat or cheese stuffing, and then shaped into rings and boiled: often served in broth or with a sauce. |
Origin:
1905–10; < It, pl. of tortellino, dim. of tortello stuffed pastry, dim. (with gender change) of torta cake; see torte
1905–10; < It, pl. of tortellino, dim. of tortello stuffed pastry, dim. (with gender change) of torta cake; see torte
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| tor·tel·li·ni (tôr'tl-ē'nē) n. Pasta in small rings stuffed usually with meat or cheese and served in soup or with a sauce. [Italian, diminutive of tortelli, a kind of pasta, pl. diminutive of torta, cake, from Late Latin torta, a kind of bread.] |
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tortellini
1937, from It., pl. of tortellino, dim. of tortello "cake, fritter," itself a dim. of torta (see torte).
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