Examples of rotini in a Sentence
Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 16 Feb. 2024
It's made with the same creamy four-cheese blend, paired instead with gluten-free rotini pasta made with a blend of corn, rice, lentil and quinoa flours.
—Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2023
Despite the abundance, there are about a dozen that dominate our plates, including spaghetti, linguine, fettucine, penne, rigatoni, rotini, farfalle, and lasagna.
—Lisa Zwirn, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2023
Classic pasta salad is made with rotini or spiral pasta, a shape that does a great job holding on to the dressing.
—Robin Miller, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2022
Add the rotini and boil 8 minutes or according to package instructions.
—cleveland, 6 Dec. 2022
Made from yellow peas, their penne, elbows, and rotini maintain the look and feel of traditional pasta.
—Danielle Bernabe, Bon Appétit, 11 Apr. 2022
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Word History
borrowed from Italian, plural of rotino "small wheel," from ruota "wheel" (going back to Latin rota) + -ino, diminutive suffix (going back to Latin -īnus, suffix of appurtenance) — more at roll entry 1, -ine entry 1
Note: Probably of dialectal Italian origin, as rotini does not refer to a pasta in Tuscan-based literary Italian.
1949, in the meaning defined above
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“Rotini.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rotini. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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