puttanesca

Meaning

Noun

1. (feminine) puttanesca sauce
2. (feminine) spaghetti puttanesca

Adj

feminine singular of puttanesco (“whorish, sluttish”)

Concepts

whorish

Hyphenated as

put‧ta‧né‧sca

Pronounced as (IPA)

/put.taˈnes.ka/

Etymology

From puttanesco (“whorish”). Sometimes claimed to have been invented in a whorehouse, or that the name is from puttanata (“stupidity”), according to an account where Sandro Petti is identified as the inventor of the sauce.