LIST OF PASTA

Image Type Description Translation

Conchiglie Seashell shaped Shells

Bow tie or butterfly

Farfalle Butterflies
shaped

Fiori Shaped like a flower Little flowers

Three-edged spiral, From fusile, archaic/dialect

usually in mixed colours. form of fucile, meaning rifle.
Fusilli Many vendors and As the inside barrel of a gun
brands sold as fusilli are is "rifled" using a similar
two-edged screw-shaped device

Lanterne Curved ridges Lantern holders

Radiatore Shaped like radiators Radiator

Wagon wheel shaped Little wheels (from ruota—

Rotelle
pasta wheel)
 2-edged spiral, tightly
wound. Some vendors
Rotini
and brands are 3-edged
and sold as rotini

Trofie[2] Thin twisted pasta

Tubular pasta
Image Type Description Translation

Bucatini Hollow spaghetti little holes

Corkscrew- corkscrews; also known as

Cavatappi
shaped macaroni Cellentani, spirali and Scoobi do

Corkscrew- also known as Cavatappi, spirali

Cellentani
shaped tube and Scoobi do

Gomito
Bent tubes Elbow macaroni
maccheroni

Square egg
Garganelli noodle rolled into
a tube
 Large stuffable Sleeves (from the Italian,
Manicotti
ridged tubes "manica")

Penne with
Penne rigate
ridged sides

From the verb Perciare meaning

Perciatelli Thicker bucatini
Hollow inside

from "riga," meaning line:

rigatoni means that with lines
Large and slightly (large). "rigato" or "rigate", when
Rigatoni
curved tube added to another pasta name
means lined, or, with ridges
added, as in "spaghetti rigati"

From the verb Torcere meaning

Tortiglioni Narrower rigatoni
To Twist; Twisted, wringed

Strand noodles - Straight round-rods

spago means twine,

Most common spaghetto means little
Spaghetti [spaˈgetti]
round-rod pasta twine, spaghetti is
plural

Thinner than
Capellini [kapelˈlini] vermicelli, thicker fine hair
than angel hair