pastiche

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromπαστά“barley porridge”
2. Late Latin · derived frompasta“dough, pastry cake, paste”
3. Vulgar Latin · derived from*pastīcius
4. Italian · derived frompasticcio“pie, something blended”
5. French · borrowed frompastiche
6. English todaypastiche

Via French pastiche, from Italian pasticcio (“pie, something blended”), from Vulgar Latin *pastīcius, from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”). Doublet of pasticcio.

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