What is the singular of Spaghetti? Can you eat a Spaghettus?

Answer 1

Similar to "graffito/graffiti," the Italian word "spaghetti" is the plural of "speghetto." In German the plural is maintained (there is no singular form), while in English spaghetti is singular.

Answer 2

It's likely that the singular of spaghetti in Latin is spaghettus.
However since this word has been coined into English and we know that food following grammatical rules is uncountable, we can only have one form of nomenclature: spaghetti

Answer 3

As several Answerers have previously pointed out, "spaghetti" is the (Italian) plural of "spaghetto." My favorite riff on funny plurals (and mock plurals) comes from the book Words and Rules by Steven Pinker, and it does mention a Spaghettus! Here you go:

"I also get a perverse pleasure from correcting students who refer to an important piece of data. (Data is the plural of datum, I tell them, so one ought to say, The datum is important; The data are important.)

"The flip side of plural pomposity is playful punning that deflates it, and for decades wags have seen the opening...Wayne and Schuster performed a skit in which Julius Caesar nibbled on a spaghettus. In Richard Lederer's "Foxen in the Henhice," Farmer Pluribus reached for some Kleenices while being serenaded by tubae, harmonicae, accordia, fives, and dra."

Answer 4

One spaghetti noodle or one piece of spaghetti is probably correct, although your suggestion of Spaghettus is in keeping with
its Roman roots.
But like the Lays potato chip commercial says,"You can't eat just one." Who would ever eat one Spaghettus?

Answer 5

Spaghetti in Italian literally means little bits of string. If you had only one, it would be rather sad, but I suppose you'd call it uno solo spaghetto.

Donizetti,
Had lots of spaghetti
But poor Canaletto
Had only one spaghetto

Answer 6

spaghetti is singular

Answer 7

Uno spaghetto - uno degli spaghetti. Moh!

Answer 8

I couldn't agree more
well done uknative

Answer 9

spaghettum?