Etymology

pasta

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Today it means: Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating. Full definition →

Italian pasta ← Late Latin pasta ← Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)
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pasta · noun1

  1. Ancient Greekπάσσω (pássō)
  2. Ancient Greekπαστός (pastós)
  3. Ancient Greekπαστά (pastá)
  4. Late Latinpasta
  5. Italianpasta
  6. English todaypasta

Borrowed from Italian pasta (“paste; pasta, noodles”), from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), neuter plural of παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”), from Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō, “to sprinkle”). Doublet of paste.

pasta · noun2

  1. Latincōpiō
  2. Old Frenchcopier
  3. Middle Englishcopien
  4. Englishcopy
  5. Ancient Greekπάσσω (pássō)
  6. Ancient Greekπαστός (pastós)
  7. Ancient Greekπαστά (pastá)
  8. Late Latinpasta
  9. Old Frenchpaste
  10. Middle Englishpaste
  11. Englishpaste
  12. Englishcopy-paste
  13. Late Latinpasta
  14. Italianpasta
  15. Englishpasta
  16. Englishcopypastaclip.
  17. English todaypasta

Clipping of copypasta.

pasta · noun3

  1. Ancient Greekπάσσω (pássō)
  2. Ancient Greekπαστός (pastós)
  3. Ancient Greekπαστά (pastá)
  4. Late Latinpasta
  5. Philippine Spanishpasta
  6. English todaypasta

Borrowed from Philippine Spanish pasta, from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”). Doublet of paste.

Words from the same roots

Late Latinpasta all →

pastepastrypastiche

Ancient Greekπαστά all →

pastepastrypastichepastichio

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.