spaghetti

Spaghetti comes from Italian spaghetti, the plural of spaghetto ("strand of spaghetti"), formed from spago ("cord, string, twine") plus the diminutive suffix -etto. Spago traces back to Latin spagus ("twine"), which probably comes from Ancient Greek σφάκος (sphákos, a name for apple sage), itself probably from a Pre-Greek source.

The word began as a way of describing something small and string-like, and that literal sense of thinness carried straight through into the pasta shape we now picture in a bowl.

The verb "to spaghetti" is simply derived from the noun, so the food came first and the action followed.