panini

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

panini

1. plural of panino

panini (plural paninis)

1. (sometimes proscribed) 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.
   • 2007, Boy A, 00:17:15

     (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."

The use of panini as a singular noun is sometimes proscribed in favor of the less common panino. Cf. graffiti, paparazzi.

From Italian panini.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑnini/, [ˈpɑ̝nini]
• Rhymes: -ɑnini
• Syllabification^(key): pa‧ni‧ni
• Hyphenation^(key): pa‧ni‧ni

panini

1. panini

• “panini”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• painin, piinan

From Italian panini, the plural of panino.

• IPA^(key): /pa.ni.ni/

panini m (plural paninis)

1. panini

panini m pl

1. plural of panino