Named after a cooking pot in Latin, which was named after a pot stand in Greek — the food took the name of its vessel
A wide, flat pasta, or a baked dish of layered pasta with sauce, cheese, and meat or vegetables
From Italian 'lasagna' (plural 'lasagne'), from Latin 'lasanum' meaning cooking pot or chamber pot, borrowed from Greek 'lasanon' meaning trivet or stand for a pot. The word shifted from the cooking vessel to the food cooked in it — a common pattern in culinary etymology. Some scholars have proposed a connection to Arabic 'lawzinaj' (an almond pastry), but the Latin derivation through Greek is better supported