pâté

/ˈpæt.eɪ//pæˈteɪ/

noun

A finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables, sometimes with the addition of alcohol.

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Meanings

nounpâté (countable and uncountable, plural pâtés)

plural pâtés · alternative pate · alternative paté

  1. countableuncountableA finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables, sometimes with the addition of alcohol.

    Two waiters brought in kipper pâté and thin toast.

    2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 152

Origin

  1. Frenchpâté“paste”
  2. Englishpâté

Unadapted borrowing from French pâté (“paste”). Doublet of pate (“cheese portion”) and patty.

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Translations

Arabic بَاتِيه, بَاتِه
  • بَاتِيه (bātēh)finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • بَاتِه (bātih)finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Basque pate
  • patefinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Bulgarian пасте́т
  • пасте́т (pastét)finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Chinese Cantonese 肝醬 /肝酱, 肉醬 /肉酱
  • 肝醬 /肝酱 (gon¹ zoeng³)finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • 肉醬 /肉酱 (juk⁶ zoeng³)finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Chinese Mandarin 肉醬 /肉酱
  • 肉醬 /肉酱 (ròujiàng)finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Czech paštika
  • paštikafinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Danish pate, paté
  • patefinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • patéfinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • postejfinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Dutch paté
  • patéfinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Esperanto pasteĉo
  • pasteĉofinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Estonian pasteet
  • pasteetfinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Finnish patee
  • pateefinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
French pâté
  • pâtéfinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
German Pastete, Paste
  • Pastetefinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Pastefinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Streichwurstfinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Aufstrichfinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Greek πατέ
  • πατέ (paté)finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Hebrew פָּטֶה
  • פָּטֶה (paté)finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Hungarian pástétom
  • pástétomfinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Icelandic kæfa
  • kæfafinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Irish pâté
  • pâtéfinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Italian pâté
  • pâtéfinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Japanese パテ
  • パテ (pate)finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Korean 파테
  • 파테 (pate)finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Latvian pastēte
  • pastētefinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Lithuanian paštetas
  • paštetasfinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Norwegian Bokmål paté
  • patéfinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Polish pasztet
  • pasztetfinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Portuguese patê
  • patêfinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Romanian pate
  • patefinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Russian паште́т
  • паште́т (paštét)finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Slovak paštéta
  • paštétafinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Spanish paté, pasta de carne
  • patéfinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • pasta de carnefinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Swedish paté, pastej
  • patéfinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • pastejfinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Thai ปาเต
  • ปาเตfinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Turkish pate
  • patefinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Ukrainian паште́т
  • паште́т (paštét)finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Vietnamese pa tê
  • pa têfinely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
Yiddish פּאַשטעט
  • פּאַשטעט (pashtet)finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with pâté

patelattesataymatératé
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