paste

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English

Etymology 1

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. Middle English had pasten (“to make a paste of; bake in a pastry”), also from the noun; compare Latin pistō and Medieval Latin pastillātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peɪst/
• 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.
   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.
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. A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.
4. (obsolete) Pasta.
5. (mineralogy) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• → Cebuano: pasta

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peɪst/
• 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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpæsteɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑsteɪ/

Noun

paste

1. (rare) plural of pasta

References

Anagrams

• septa-, tapes, septa, aspet, pâtés, sepat, tepas, Pesta, spate, speat, patés, stape, pates, peats

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpastɛ]

Verb

paste

1. second-person plural imperative of pást

Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Noun

paste f (plural pastes)

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): /ˈpa.ste/
• Rhymes: -aste
• Hyphenation: pà‧ste

Noun

paste f pl

1. plural of pasta

Anagrams

• pesta, spate

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːs.te/, [ˈpäːs̠t̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.te/, [ˈpäst̪e]

Participle

pāste

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

Middle English

Etymology

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

Noun

paste (plural pastes)

1. dough for the making of bread or pastry
2. food; a meal
3. a dough or paste used as a sealant, an adhesive, or a casing in which to cook medicinal substances

References

“paste, n..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old French

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. dough; paste
2. pastry

Derived terms

• pastaierie

Descendants

• Middle French: paste
  • French: pâte
• → Middle English: paste
  • English: paste
    • → Cebuano: pasta
  • Scots: paste, paist

References

• paste on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Portuguese

Verb

paste

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

Spanish

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

• paxte (loofah)

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

• “paste”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28