Lettuce or Lattughino?

Maureen keeps telling me it is lettuce, but I am super impressed with my lattughino.  To me it is not just lettuce.  It is an especially beautiful green and dark red ruffled leaf  that has endured the winter and graced our garden to provide us with our first salads of the spring.  As listed on the seed packet I planted it in September and watched it provide colour to the garden throughout the winter when nearly everything else had died off.

The best I can gather from searching the web is that 'lattughino' is Italian for Lettuce.   So it really is just lettuce after all.  I would be elated if a linguist could kindly clarify this point?  What is evident is that planting in August/September can make for enjoying an early spring fresh salad.  Parsley has been cropping for some time already, the first leaves of rocket are ready for picking and next week the first of the red lettuce and radishes should be available to enable us to put together a zesty salad.  Call it Lettuce....Call it Lattughino....I'll call it Yum.