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It suggests Itali but there is some doubt.

Italian dictionaries admit the word macaroni's (maccherone) obscure origin, suggesting as one possible derivation the Greek word makaria, meaning food of the blessed. The suggestion that the word macaroni comes from the Greek may have its origins with the travel diaries of Ortensio Landi (1512-1553), a doctor from Modena who wrote about macaroni in Sicily and described it as having the name of the beatified (il nome dal beatificare). Another suggestion is that the word derives from maccare, a now archaic verb meaning "to knead."

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