paste

See also: Paste, pasté, pastę, paște, pastë, and Paște

English

Etymology 1

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τός (-tós)
Ancient Greek παστός (pastós)
Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor.
Late Latin pasta
Anglo-Norman pastebor.
Middle English paste
English paste

      From Middle English paste, from Old French paste (modern pâte), from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá). Doublet of pasta. The verb is from the noun.[1] Middle English had pasten (“to make a paste of; bake in a pastry”),[1] also from the noun;[2][3] compare Latin pistō and Medieval Latin pastillātus.[3]

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /peɪst/
      • Audio (US):(file)
      • Rhymes: -eɪst
      • Homophone: paced

      Noun

      paste (countable and uncountable, plural pastes)

      1. A soft moist mixture, in particular:
        1. One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
        2. (obsolete) Pastry.
          • 1860, Charles Dickens, Captain Murderer:
            And that day month, he had the paste rolled out, and cut the fair twin's head off, and chopped her in pieces, and peppered her, and salted her, and put her in the pie, and sent it to the baker's, and ate it all, and picked the bones.
        3. One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
        4. One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.
          Hyponym: wheat paste
          Coordinate term: cement
          Near-synonyms: glue, adhesive
      2. (physics) A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid.
      3. (glassworking, jewelry) A hard lead-containing glass; an artificial gemstone made from this glass.
      4. (obsolete) Pasta.
        • 1766, Tobias George Smollett, Travels through France and Italy: Containing observations on character, customs, religion, government, police, commerce, arts, and antiquities. With a particular description of the town, territory, and climate of Nice. To which is added, A register of the weather, kept during a residence of eighteen months in that city, Volume 2‎[2] (travel), page 35:
          This is likewise the market for their oil, and the paste called macaroni, of which they make a good quantity.
        • 1792, Arnaud Berquin, The childrens'[sic] companion: or, entertaining instructor for the youth of both sexes; designed, to excite attention and inculcate virtue. Selected from the works of Berquin, Genlis, Day, and others‎[3], page 75:
          Vermicelli for soups, is paste from Italy; so called because it looks like worms. My macaroni, paste from Italy—My salop, a root ground to powder—the root of one kind of orchis.
      5. (mineralogy) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.
      Derived terms
      Descendants
      • → Cebuano: pasta
      • → Malay: pes
      Translations

      Verb

      paste (third-person singular simple present pastes, present participle pasting, simple past and past participle pasted)

      1. (transitive) To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
      2. (transitive, computing) To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
      Derived terms
      Translations

      Etymology 2

        Probably an alteration of baste (“beat”) influenced by some sense of the noun.[4]

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /peɪst/
        • Audio (US):(file)
        • Rhymes: -eɪst
        • Homophone: paced

        Verb

        paste (third-person singular simple present pastes, present participle pasting, simple past and past participle pasted)

        1. (transitive, slang) To strike or beat someone or something.
        2. (transitive, slang) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

        Etymology 3

          Unadapted borrowing from Italian paste (“pastas”).

          Pronunciation

          Noun

          paste

          1. (rare) plural of pasta

          References

          1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “paste (v.1.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
          2. ^ “paste, v.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
          3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 “pā̆sten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
          4. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “paste (v.2.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

          Anagrams

          Czech

          Pronunciation

          • IPA(key): [ˈpastɛ]

          Verb

          paste

          1. second-person plural imperative of pást

          Dutch

          Pronunciation

          • IPA(key): /ˈpɑs.tə/
          • Audio:(file)
          • Hyphenation: pas‧te

          Etymology 1

          Noun

          paste f (plural pastes, no diminutive)

          1. obsolete spelling of pasta (“paste”)

          Etymology 2

          See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

          Verb

          paste

          1. inflection of passen:
            1. singular past indicative
            2. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive

          Italian

          Pronunciation

          • IPA(key): /ˈpas.te/
          • Rhymes: -aste
          • Hyphenation: pà‧ste

          Noun

          paste f pl

          1. plural of pasta

          Anagrams

          Latin

          Pronunciation

          Participle

          pāste

          1. vocative masculine singular of pāstus (“fed, nourished; having eaten, consumed; grazed, pastured; satisfied, gratified”)

          Middle English

          Etymology 1

            Borrowed from Anglo-Norman paste, from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá). First attested in c. 1381.

            Alternative forms

            Pronunciation

            • IPA(key): /ˈpaːst(ə)/

            Noun

            paste (plural pastes)

            1. Dough for (bread, crackers, or pastry):
              1. Pastry or bread; worked dough.
              2. (rare) A pie or other pastry dish.
              3. (rare) A dough container for cooking medicine.
            2. A dough or paste used as an adhesive or sealant (especially as a medical plaster)
            3. Dough used as or alongside a medical substance.
            4. (rare) Food; a meal.
            Descendants
            References

            Etymology 2

              Borrowed from Anglo-Norman pasté, from paste (“dough, paste”) +‎ -é. First attested in c. 1300.

              Alternative forms

              Pronunciation

              • IPA(key): /pasˈteː/, /ˈpasteː/

              Noun

              paste (plural pastes)

              1. A pie (especially when made without a dish)
              2. (rare) A medicinal cake or pie.
              Descendants
              References

              Old French

              Etymology 1

                From Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá).

                Noun

                paste oblique singular, f (oblique plural pastes, nominative singular paste, nominative plural pastes)

                1. dough; paste
                2. pastry
                Derived terms
                Descendants

                References

                Etymology 2

                Noun

                paste oblique singular, m (oblique plural pastes, nominative singular pastes, nominative plural paste)

                1. manuscript form of pasté

                Portuguese

                Verb

                paste

                1. inflection of pastar:
                  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
                  2. third-person singular imperative

                Serbo-Croatian

                Noun

                paste (Cyrillic spelling пасте)

                1. inflection of pasta:
                  1. genitive singular
                  2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

                Spanish

                paste from Mexico City

                Pronunciation

                • IPA(key): /ˈpaste/ [ˈpas.t̪e]
                • Rhymes: -aste
                • Syllabification: pas‧te

                Etymology 1

                (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

                Noun

                paste m (plural pastes)

                1. (Mexico) pasty, pastie (a type of pie or turnover)
                2. loofah (plant in genus Luffa)
                Alternative forms

                Etymology 2

                  See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

                  Verb

                  paste

                  1. inflection of pastar:
                    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
                    2. third-person singular imperative

                  Further reading

                  Unami

                  Etymology

                  Verb

                  paste (VII (inanimate-subject intransitive))

                  1. To swell, to rise (like dough).

                  Derived terms

                  References

                  • Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “pèhpastèk”, in Grant Leneaux, Raymond Whritenour, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project
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