Borrowed fromItalian pasta ( “ paste; pasta, noodles ” ) , fromLate Latin pasta ( “ dough, pastry cake, paste ” ) , fromAncient Greek παστά ( pastá ,“ barley porridge ” ) , neuter plural ofπαστός ( pastós ,“ sprinkled with salt ” ) , fromAncient Greek πάσσω ( pássō ,“ to sprinkle ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *kʷeh₁t- ( “ to shake ” ) .Doublet ofpaste
Ancient Greek πάσσω ( pássō ) English pasta
( Received Pronunciation ) enPR :păsʹtə ,IPA (key ) : /ˈpæstə/ ( Northern England , Wales , Scotland , Ireland ) IPA (key ) : /ˈpastə/ ( General American ) enPR :päsʹtə ,IPA (key ) : /ˈpɑstə/ ( Canada ) enPR :păsʹtə ,päsʹtə ,IPA (key ) : /ˈpæstə/ ,/ˈpɑstə/ ( General Australian ) enPR :päsʹtə ,IPA (key ) : /ˈpɐːstə/ ( New Zealand ) enPR :päsʹtə ,IPA (key ) : /ˈpɐːstɘ/ ( New Zealand, Broad ) enPR :păsʹtə ,IPA (key ) : /ˈpɛstɘ/ ( Indic ) IPA (key ) : /paːst̪aː/ Homophone :pastor ( Australia, New Zealand, Northern England ) Rhymes:-æstə -ɑːstə pasta (countable anduncountable plural pastas or ( rare ) paste
( uncountable ) Dough made fromwheat and water and sometimes mixed withegg and formed into various shapes; often sold indried form and typically boiled for eating.Hyponym: macaroni ( loosely ) noodle .( uncountable ) dish orserving of pasta.( countable ) type of pasta.( uncountable , Philippines ) filling .For quotations using this term, seeCitations:pasta .
dough
Arabic:Algerian Arabic:ماقرونة Hijazi Arabic:مَكَرُونَة f ( makarōna ) Moroccan Arabic:مقرونية f ( maqarūniyya ) Catalan:pasta (ca) f Cebuano:pasta Chinese:Cantonese:意大利粉 ( ji3 daai6 lei6 fan2 ) ,意粉 ( ji3 fan2 ) ( abbreviation ) Dungan:мянфан ( mi͡anfan ) Mandarin:意大利麵 / 意大利面 (zh) ( Yìdàlì miàn ) Czech:těstoviny (cs) f pl Danish:pasta (da) c Dutch:deegwaren (nl) f pl Esperanto:pasto (eo) Faroese:pasta f Finnish:pasta (fi) French:pâtes (fr) f pl pâtes alimentaires (fr) f pl German:Nudeln (de) f pl ( formal, specialist ) Teigwaren (de) f pl ( commercial sometimes ) Pasta (de) f Greek:ζυμαρικά (el) n pl ( zymariká ) Ancient:κολλύρα f ( kollúra ) Hebrew:פַּסְטָה (he) f ( pás'ṭå ) Hindi:पास्ता ( pāstā ) Hungarian:tészta (hu) Hunsrik:Nutle f pl Icelandic:pasta n Irish:pasta m Italian:pasta (it) f impasto (it) m Japanese:パスタ ( pasuta ) Korean:파스타 (ko) ( paseuta ) Kurdish:Northern Kurdish:meqarne Latin:collȳra f pasta f ( Late ) Lithuanian:makaronas m makaronai m pl Macedonian:тестенина f ( testenina ) Marathi:पास्ता m ( pāstā ) ,पास्ता m ( pāstā ) Mòcheno:pasta f Norman:pâtes f pl ( Jersey ) Norwegian:pasta (no) Persian:پاستا ( pâstâ ) Polish:makaron (pl) m Portuguese:massa (pt) f ( Brazil ) macarrão (pt) m Romanian:paste făinoase (ro) f pl Russian:макаро́ны (ru) pl ( makaróny ) ,макаро́нные изде́лия n pl ( makarónnyje izdélija ) ,( slang ) па́ста (ru) f ( pásta ) ( considered non-standard and has other meanings ) Serbo-Croatian:Roman:testenìna f Slovak:cestovina f Spanish:pasta (es) f Swedish:pasta (sv) c Tagalog:pasta Tamil:மாச்சேவை ( māccēvai ) Thai:พาสตา ( páas-dtâa ) Turkish:makarna (tr) Ukrainian:макаро́нні ви́роби m pl ( makarónni výroby ) Welsh:pasta (cy) m
Borrowed fromSpanish pasta
IPA (key ) : /ˈpasta/ [ˈpas.ta] Hyphenation:pas‧ta pásta (Basahan spelling ᜉᜐ᜔ᜆ
paste Synonym: pulot ( dentistry ) filling Synonym: semento Inherited fromLate Latin pasta Ancient Greek παστά ( pastá ) .
pasta f plural pastes
paste ,putty pulp ( for papermaking ) dough pasta ( dough made from wheat and water ) ( colloquial ) money ,dough pasta
inflection ofpastar third-person singular present indicative second-person singular imperative Borrowed from Spanish pasta.
pasta
dental filling Borrowed fromSpanish pasta Italian pasta Late Latin pasta ( “ dough, pastry cake, paste ” ) , fromAncient Greek παστά ( pastá ,“ barley porridge ” ) , fromπαστός ( pastós ,“ sprinkled with salt ” ) .
pasta
pasta dough made fromwheat and water and sometimes mixed withegg and formed into various shapes; often sold indried form and typically boiled for eatingadish orserving of pasta atype of pasta FromItalian pasta Late Latin pasta Ancient Greek παστά ( pastá ) .
pasta f
( Luserna ) pasta Borrowed fromLate Latin pasta Italian pasta English paste
pasta f
paste Declension ofpasta (hard feminine )
“pasta ”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957 “pasta ”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989 “pasta ”, inInternetová jazyková příručka (in Czech),2008–2025 FromItalian pasta
IPA (key ) : /ˈpasda/ ,[ˈpʰæsd̥æ] ,[ˈpʰæstæ] pasta c singular definite pastaen plural indefinite pastaer
pasta ( food ) paste IPA (key ) : /ˈpɑs.taː/ Hyphenation:pas‧ta Learned borrowing fromLate Latin pasta ( “ dough, paste ” ) , fromAncient Greek παστά ( pastá ,“ barley porridge ” ) . Displacedpaste
pasta f plural pasta's diminutive pastaatje n
paste [from late 16th c.] 1596 , Jan Huyghen van Linschoten,Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien 1579-1592 , part 2, publ. by Martinus Nijhoff (1956), page 147.Het eerste noemen die AEgyptenaren assis, 'twelc is poyer van kennep ofte hennep bladeren, met water tot eenpasta ofte deegh ghemaect, daer af zy vijf ofte meer stucxkens eten, so groot als castanien, van 't vvelcke de ghene, die sulcks ghegheten hebben, een ure daernae niet anders worden dan of zy droncken waren, met ontsinnigheyt; worden van selfs gelijc oft zy opgetrocken waren, ende haer verschynen vremde ghesichten, daer in zy groote vermakelickheyt hebben. The first one the Egyptians call hashish, which is a powder of cannabis or hemp leaves, made into apaste or dough with water, of which they eat five or more pieces as big as chestnuts, from which those who have eaten such, become for an hour thereafter nothing but as if they were drunk, with senselessness; [they] become on their own as if they are in an exalted state, and strange visions appear to them, in which they have great amusement. Borrowed fromItalian pasta Late Latin pasta Ancient Greek παστά ( pastá ) .
pasta f plural pasta's diminutive pastaatje n
pasta [from mid 19th c.] 1866 De Gids , volume30 , page334 :Een groot vuur brandde lustig onder een ketel gevuld metpasta , eene soort van macaroni, waarboven gansche brokken sneeuw werden gesmolten die met een overvloed van warme geitenmelk, ons tot drank verstrekten. A large fire burned eagerly under a cauldron filled withpasta , a type of macaroni, above which entire chunks of snow were molten that served us as a beverage [together] with an abundance of warm goat milk. Borrowed fromItalian pasta Late Latin pasta ( “ dough, pastry cake, paste ” ) , fromAncient Greek παστά ( pastá ,“ barley porridge ” ) , fromπαστός ( pastós ,“ sprinkled with salt ” ) .
pasta f genitive singular pastu ,uncountable )
pasta
Pasta dish (rigatoni alla carbonara) Borrowed fromItalian pasta
pasta
pasta Late Latin pasta
pasta
Synonym oftahna ( “ paste ” ) First attested in the 15th century. FromLatin pasta
IPA (key ) : /ˈpasta/ [ˈpas̺.t̪ɐ] Rhymes:-asta Hyphenation:pas‧ta pasta f plural pastas
paste 1409 A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus , Santiago de Compostela: USC, page172 :filla o vinagre ben forte e a greda alva muda et pouco de sal ben mundo, e amasa todo moi ben ata que se faça ende ũapasta mole. take a strong vinegar and ground white clay and a little salt, finely ground, and mix very well everything till it becames a softpaste pasta dough Synonym: masa binding ,cover of abook Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández , editor (2006 –2013 ), “pasta ”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández ,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane ,María Álvarez de la Granja , editors (2003 –2018 ), “pasta ”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Rosario Álvarez Blanco , editor (2014 –2024 ), “pasta ”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega ,→ISSN Borrowed fromItalian pasta
pasta n genitive singular pasta no plural )
pasta Declension ofpasta (sg-only neuter ) singular indefinite definite nominative pasta pastað accusative pasta pastað dative pasta pastanu genitive pasta pastans
FromDutch pasta ( “ pasta, paste ” ) , fromLate Latin pasta ( “ dough, pastry cake, paste ” ) , fromAncient Greek παστά ( pastá ,“ barley porridge ” ) , fromπαστός ( pastós ,“ sprinkled with salt ” ) .Doublet ofpastel
pásta (plural pasta -pasta
paste : a soft moist mixturepasta dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating; a dish or serving of pasta a type of pasta FromEnglish pasta Italian pasta Late Latin pasta ( “ dough, pastry cake, paste ” ) , fromAncient Greek παστά ( pastá ,“ barley porridge ” ) , fromπαστός ( pastós ,“ sprinkled with salt ” ) .
pasta m genitive singular pasta
pasta Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
“pasta ”, inNew English-Irish Dictionary , Foras na Gaeilge,2013-2025 Ancient Greek πάσσω ( pássō ) Italian pasta
Inherited fromLate Latin pasta Ancient Greek παστά ( pastá ) .
pasta f plural paste
paste pasta noodles dough cake ,tart texture Borrowed fromAncient Greek παστά ( pastá ) , fromπαστός ( pastós ) , fromπάσσω ( pássō ,“ sprinkle ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *kʷeh₁t- ( “ to shake ” ) .
pasta f genitive pastae first declension ( Late Latin )
paste ( New Latin ) pasta First-declension noun.
Italo-Romance:Italian:pasta see there for further descendants ) Sicilian:pasta Padanian: Northern Gallo-Romance: Occitano-Romance: Ibero-Romance: Unsorted borrowings (many or all via French/Italian):
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
pāsta
inflection ofpāstus ( “ fed, nourished; having eaten, consumed; grazed, pastured; satisfied, gratified ” ) nominative / vocative feminine singular nominative / accusative / vocative neuter plural pāstā
ablative feminine singular ofpāstus ( “ fed, nourished; having eaten, consumed; grazed, pastured; satisfied, gratified ” ) "pasta ", inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 )A Latin Dictionary "pasta ", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis pasta inGaffiot, Félix (1934 )Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette, page1123 . pasta inGeorges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918 )Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch , 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column1502 pasta m
genitive singular ofpasts FromItalian pasta Late Latin pasta Ancient Greek παστά ( pastá ) .
pasta f
pasta Borrowed fromItalian pasta
pasta m definite singular pastaen indefinite plural pastaer definite plural pastaene
pasta ( usually uncountable ) paste Borrowed fromItalian pasta
pasta m definite singular pastaen indefinite plural pastaer or pastaar definite plural pastaene or pastaane
pasta ( usually uncountable ) paste Learned borrowing fromLate Latin pasta Ancient Greek παστά ( pastá ) .
pasta f
paste ( soft mixture ) Italian pasta Clipping ofcopypasta
pasta f
( Internet slang ) copypasta ( block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else ) Synonym: copypasta pasta inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PANpasta in Polish dictionaries at PWN
FromOld Galician-Portuguese pasta Late Latin pasta ( “ dough, pastry cake, paste ” ) , fromAncient Greek παστά ( pastá ) .
Cognate withGalician pasta
pasta f plural pastas
( cooking ) dough ( mix of flour and other ingredients ) Synonym: massa paste Eu gosto de escovar os dentes com essapasta de dente. ―I like to brush my teeth with this toothpaste. folder ( organizer ) ( computing ) folder ( container of computer files ) Synonym: diretório briefcase ( case used for carrying documents ) Synonym: maleta ( politics ) ministry ;portfolio ( responsibilities of a government department ) See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
pasta
inflection ofpastar third-person singular present indicative second-person singular imperative FromLate Latin pasta Ancient Greek παστά ( pastá ) .
pasta f plural pastas
paste pasta dough IPA (key ) : /pâsta/ Hyphenation:pas‧ta pȁsta f Cyrillic spelling па̏ста
paste ,polish pasta za zube ―toothpaste pasta za cipele ―shoe polish FromLate Latin pasta Ancient Greek παστά ( pastá ) .
IPA (key ) : /ˈpasta/ ,[ˈpaʃta] Hyphenation:pàs‧ta pasta f
pasta dough Borrowed fromLate Latin pasta pasta paste
pasta f relational adjective pastový diminutive pastička
paste Declension of
pasta (pattern
žena )
“pasta ”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk ,2003–2025 IPA (key ) : /ˈpasta/ [ˈpas.t̪a] Rhymes:-asta Syllabification:pas‧ta Inherited fromLate Latin pasta Ancient Greek παστά ( pastá ) .
pasta f plural pastas
pasta paste ,dough biscuit ( Spain , slang ) money ,dough Synonyms: ( Latin America ) plata lana dinero 2006 , Irvine Welsh, Federico Corriente Basús transl.,Porno , Anagrama (→ISBN )No está tan engreído como de costumbre; parece bien jodido. «No lo entiendo, Spud. Pensé que me quedaba muchapasta para las vacaciones; tenía previsto llevarme a mi hija por ahí. [ …] (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation) ( slang ) Ellipsis ofpasta de cocaína ( “ cocaine paste ” ) Ellipsis ofpasta de dientes ( “ toothpaste ” ) See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
pasta
inflection ofpastar third-person singular present indicative second-person singular imperative olika sorterspasta [different types ofpasta ] pasta c
pasta koka pasta cook [boil, literally]pasta paste FromOttoman Turkish پاسته ( pasta ,“ pasta ” ) , borrowed fromItalian pasta
pasta (definite accusative pastayı plural pastalar
( cooking ) cake Doğum günüpasta sı çok güzeldi. ―The birthdaycake was very nice. FromEnglish pasta Italian pasta
pasta m uncountable
pasta Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pasta ”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies Probably borrowed fromDutch pasta Italian pasta
pasta c plural pasta's
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