pastel

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pastel

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Borrowed from French pastel, from Italian pastello (“pastel”), from Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek πάστη (pástē, “dough, paste”). Doublet of pastegh, pastiglia, pastila, pastilla, and pastille.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpæstl̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /pæsˈtɛl/
• Rhymes: -æstəl, -ɛl
• Hyphenation: past‧el

pastel (countable and uncountable, plural pastels)

1. Any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue, and lavender.
2. (art) A drawing made with any of those colors.
3. A type of dried paste used to make crayons.
4. A crayon made from such a paste.
5. Woad.

   Wool was dyed in the pastel vat.

• (drawing; crayon): pastille (nonstandard, obsolete)

Borrowed from Spanish pastel, ultimately the same word as Etymology 1.

• IPA^(key): /pæsˈtɛl/, /pɑsˈtɛl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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pastel (countable and uncountable, plural pastels or pasteles)

1. A traditional dish in various Latin American countries, resembling a tamale, pasty, or calzone.
2. A Filipino stew made with vegetables, sausages, and chicken or other meat in a creamy sauce.

• tepals, Stapel, septal, Staple, peltas, Patels, palest, Pleats, leptas, plates, petals, staple, palets, patels, pleats

pastel m (plural pasteles)

1. cake (a sweet dessert)

• IPA^(key):

pastel m inan

1. pastel

• “pastel”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “pastel”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “pastel”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

From French pastel, Italian pastello (“pastel”), from Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek πάστη (pástē, “dough, paste”).

• IPA^(key): /pastɛl/,

pastel c (singular definite pastellen, plural indefinite pasteller)

1. pastel

From Italian pastello (“pastel”), from Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek πάστη (pástē, “dough, paste”). Doublet of pastille.

• IPA^(key): /pas.tɛl/

• Audio:

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pastel m (plural pastels)

1. (botany) woad
2. (art) pastel

• pastelliste

• pâte
• pastille

• → English: pastel
• → Danish: pastel
• → Dutch: pastel
  • → Indonesian: pastel
• → Romanian: pastel

• “pastel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

pastel f (plural pasteis)

1. cake

• “pastel”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpastɛl/
• Syllabification: pas‧tel

From Portuguese pastel (“a type of pastry”). Doublet of pasta.

pastel (plural pastel-pastel)

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

pastel (makanan)

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1. (cooking) a type of fried curry puff, similar to empanada

From Dutch pastel, from French pastel, from Italian pastello. Related to the first etymology.

pastel (plural pastel-pastel)

1. pastel (type of dried paste)
2. pastel (drawing made with these paste)
3. pastel (any of several subdued tints of colors)

• “pastel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

pastel

Wikipedia ^pl

pastele sense 2

pastel sense 4

Borrowed from French pastel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpas.tɛl/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -astɛl
• Syllabification: pas‧tel

pastel m inan (related adjective pastelowy)

1. pastel (type of dried paste used to make crayons)
3. (chiefly in the plural) pastel (paint in the form of a soft crayon, used to draw without clear contours)
4. pastel (painting technique that involves the use of pastel)
6. pastel (painting painted with pastels)
7. pastel (any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue, and lavender)
8. (cosmetics) eye shadow (cosmetic in the form of a light powder for eyelids or cheeks)

   Synonyms: cień, cień do powiek

9. variety of mink with a light brown coat in various shades

• pastel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pastel in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• pastel in PWN's encyclopedia

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
• Hyphenation: pas‧tel

Borrowed from Italian pastello.^[1][2]

pastel m (plural pastéis)

1. crayon

Borrowed from Old French pastel (modern pâte).^[1][2]

pastel m (plural pastéis)

1. a fried pastry made of wheat flour, filled with cheese, meat or other fillings; comparable to German Teigtaschen

• → Indonesian: pastel

Borrowed from French pastel, from Italian pastello.

pastel n (plural pasteluri)

1. pastel

From Old French pastel. Cognate with English pastel.

• IPA^(key): /pasˈtel/

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• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: pas‧tel

pastel m (plural pasteles)

1. pastry
2. cake; pie

   Synonyms: torta, tarta

3. (art) pastel

• “pastel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• pastle, peltas, plaste