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panini en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian panini, plural of panino (literally “small bread”).

Meanings

1. (proscribed, sometimes) A type of grilled sandwich made of a small loaf of bread, cut horizontally, filled with meat such as salami or ham, cheese or other food.
   • (two characters talking at a table in a cafeteria) -- "What is that? What's a panini?" -- "It's a bread roll, toasted, flattened. It's nice." 2007, Boy A, 00:17:15
   • Ree piles leftover turkey on top of fresh sourdough, along with leftover cranberry sauce, gravy and Swiss cheese, to make a crusty grilled panini. 2024 November 28, Food Network Kitchen, “Leftover turkey recipes you’ll want to dig right into”, in CNN, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2025:
   • Likewise, “panini means bread rolls in Italian and in its singular form is panino.” So when we ask for ‘two paninis please’, it’s like an Italian requesting ‘due rollsi’. 2016 October 13, Matthew Anderson, “The foreign words that seem like English – but aren’t”, in BBC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2020:
   • Ramsay and Lil Nas X’s panini party comes less than two weeks after the latter had jokingly asked the “Masterchef” star to make a guest appearance on the remix of his latest single, “Panini.” […] On July 1, Lil Nas X again reached out to Ramsay on Twitter, asking him to “teach me how to make paninis” while he was still in London following a performance at the Glastonbury Festival 2019 July 5, Michael Bartiromo, “Gordon Ramsay and Lil Nas X meet up to make panini sandwiches, play with knives”, in Fox News, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2019:
2. (form-of, plural) plural of panino
   form of panino

Forms

Deriveds

global panini

Translations (9)

es panino (a sandwich) · de Panino (a sandwich) · ko 파니니 (a sandwich) · fi panini (a sandwich) · ru пани́ни (a sandwich) · bg панини (a sandwich) · ja パニーニ (a sandwich) · es panini (a sandwich) · cmn 帕尼尼 (a sandwich)