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

English

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Etymology 1

From Middle English paste, from Old French paste (modern pâte), from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá). Doublet of pasta and patty.

Pronunciation

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.
  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.
    • 2023 March 10, Alex Vadukul, quoting Nan Goldin, “Nan Goldin Is Ready for Oscar Night”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      Yesterday I bought some paste, which is a nickname for fake diamonds, and they were from Bergdorf’s.
  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 (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' 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, 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
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.
  3. (transitive, slang) To strike or beat someone or something.
  4. (transitive, slang) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.
Derived terms
Translations
to insert a piece of text

Etymology 2

Unadapted borrowing from Italian paste (“pastas”).

Pronunciation

Noun

paste

  1. (rare) plural of pasta

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

Verb

paste

  1. second-person plural imperative of pást

Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Latin

Pronunciation

Participle

pāste

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

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

Descendants

References

Portuguese

Verb

paste

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

Spanish

paste from Mexico City

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpaste/
  • 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

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