paste

paste · noun, verb¹

1. Ancient Greekπάσσω (pássō)
2. Ancient Greekπαστός (pastós)
3. Ancient Greekπαστά (pastá)
4. Late Latinpasta
5. Old Frenchpaste
6. Middle Englishpaste
7. English todaypaste

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.

paste · verb²

Probably an alteration of baste (“beat”) influenced by some sense of the noun.

paste · noun³

1. Italian · borrowed frompaste“pastas”
2. English todaypaste

Unadapted borrowing from Italian paste (“pastas”).

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