paste

paste

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

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peɪst/

• Audio (US)

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• 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.
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.
   • 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, pages 346:

     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

• alimentary paste
• almond paste
• anchovy paste
• bloater paste
• cocaine paste
• curry paste
• diamond paste
• fishpaste
• German paste
• heat paste
• huf paste
• impaste
• library paste
• London paste
• pasteboard
• paste bomb
• pastedown
• paste egg
• paste-horn
• pasteless
• pasteup
• peanut paste
• phosphorous paste
• pouf paste
• puff paste
• razor paste
• softpaste
• spackling paste
• stone paste
• sugar paste
• thermal paste
• tomato paste
• toothpaste
• Vienna paste
• wheat paste

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: pasta

Translations

a soft mixture

Adyghe: Тхьацу (Tḥaacʷu) Assamese: লুথুৰী (luthuri) Belarusian: па́ста f (pásta) Bulgarian: паста f (pasta) Chinese: Mandarin: 膏 (zh) (gāo), 糊 (zh) (hú) Czech: kaše (cs) f, pasta (cs) f Dutch: pasta (nl) m or n Finnish: massa (fi) French: pâte (fr) f German: Paste (de) f Greek: πολτός (el) m (poltós), αλοιφή (el) f (aloifí) Hungarian: paszta (hu), krém (hu), kenőcs (hu) Ido: pasto (io) Irish: taos (ga) m, leafaos m Italian: impasto (it) m Latin: intrīta f Russian: па́ста (ru) f (pásta) Spanish: pasta (es) f Telugu: ముద్ద (te) (mudda) Ukrainian: па́ста f (pásta)

soft mixture used in making pastry

Bashkir: ҡамыр (qamır) Bulgarian: тесто (bg) n (testo) Czech: těsto (cs) n Dutch: deeg (nl) n Finnish: taikina (fi) French: pâte (fr) f German: Teig (de) m Hungarian: tészta (hu) Irish: leafaos m Italian: pasta (it) f Lithuanian: tešla f Scottish Gaelic: taois f Spanish: masa (es) f

soft mixture of pounded foods

Czech: pomazánka f, paštika (cs) f Dutch: pastei (nl) m or f Finnish: tahna (fi) French: pâte (fr) German: Paste (de) f, Pastete (de) f Greek: πολτός (el) m (poltós), αλοιφή (el) f (aloifí) Hungarian: pástétom (hu) Irish: leafaos m Malay: pes (ms) Spanish: paté (es) m, budín m

an adhesive paste

Bulgarian: лепило (bg) n (lepilo), клей (bg) m (klej) Cherokee: ᎦᏯᎸᏗ (gayalvdi) Czech: lepidlo (cs) n Dutch: stijfsel (nl) m or n Esperanto: gluo (eo) Estonian: kliister Finnish: liisteri (fi) German: Kleister (de), Klebstoff (de) n, Kitt (de) m Greek: κόλλα (el) f (kólla) Hungarian: csiriz (hu) Irish: taos (ga) m Italian: colla (it) f Luxembourgish: Pap m Russian: кле́йстер (ru) m (kléjster) Scots: batter Scottish Gaelic: glaodh m Spanish: engrudo (es) m, cola (es) f

lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone thereof

Dutch: stras (nl) n Finnish: korulasi French: strass (fr) m, stras (fr) m German: Strass (de) m Hungarian: strassz (hu) Italian: strass m Portuguese: strass m Spanish: pasta (es) f

mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded

Irish: paist f

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.
   • 1943, William Saroyan, The Human Comedy, chapter 23,

     He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.

4. (transitive, slang) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

Derived terms

• copy-paste
• paster
• paste up
• repaste

 

Translations

to cause to stick, adhere

Arabic: أَلْصَقَ‎ (ʾalṣaqa) Bulgarian: залепвам (bg) (zalepvam) Catalan: enganxar (ca) Czech: lepit Dutch: plakken (nl) Esperanto: glui, alglui Finnish: liimata tahnalla French: coller (fr) f Greek: κολλώ (el) (kolló) Hungarian: ragaszt (hu), tapaszt Italian: incollare (it), attaccare (it) Latin: agglūtinō Norman: cliuter Portuguese: aderir (pt), colar (pt) Scottish Gaelic: glaodh Spanish: pegar (es), engrudar (es) Tigrinya: ለጥፍ (läṭf)

to insert a piece of text

Arabic: أَلْصَقَ‎ (ʾalṣaqa) Bulgarian: копирам (bg) (kopiram) Catalan: enganxar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 黏貼／黏贴 (zh) (niántiē) Czech: vložit (cs) Dutch: plakken (nl) Finnish: liittää (fi) French: coller (fr) German: einfügen (de) Greek: επικολλώ (el) (epikolló) Hungarian: beilleszt (hu) Ido: glutinar (io) Italian: incollare (it) Latin: agglūtinō Maori: whakapiri Polish: wklejać Portuguese: colar (pt) Romanian: lipi (ro) Russian: вставля́ть (ru) impf (vstavljátʹ), вста́вить (ru) pf (vstávitʹ) Scottish Gaelic: cuir ann Spanish: pegar (es) Swedish: klistra in (sv) Tigrinya: ለጥፍ (läṭf)

Anagrams

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

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpastɛ]

Verb

paste

1. second-person plural imperative of pást

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

paste

1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of passen

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ste/
• Rhymes: -aste
• Hyphenation: pà‧ste

Noun

paste f pl

1. plural of pasta

Anagrams

• pesta, spate

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Latin

Pronunciation

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

Participle

pāste

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

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Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek πάστα (pásta).

Noun

paste 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

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Portuguese

Verb

paste

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

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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 the Luffa genus)

Alternative forms

• (loofah): paxte

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014