pasta

See also: pastá, pastā, påstå, and pastă

Contents

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Italian pasta, from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek πάστα (pásta, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”).

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) enPR: păsʹtə, IPA^(key): /ˈpæstə/
• (US) enPR: päsʹtə, IPA^(key): /ˈpɑstə/
• (Canada) enPR: păsʹtə, päsʹtə, IPA^(key): /ˈpæstə/, /ˈpɒstə/
• (General Australian) enPR: päsʹtə, IPA^(key): /ˈpɐːstə/
• (General New Zealand) enPR: päsʹtə, IPA^(key): /ˈpɐːstɘ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːstə, -æstə

NounEdit

pasta (countable and uncountable, plural pastas)

1. (uncountable) 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.
2. (uncountable) A dish or serving of pasta.
3. (countable) A type of pasta.

QuotationsEdit

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:pasta.

HyponymsEdit

• See also Thesaurus:pasta

Related termsEdit

• paste

TranslationsEdit

dough

• Arabic:

  Hijazi Arabic: مَكَرونة‎‎ f (makarōna)

• Catalan: pasta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 意大利粉 (Ji³ daai⁶ lei⁶ fan²), 意粉 (Ji³ fan²) (abbreviation)

  Mandarin: 意大利麵 (zh), 意大利面 (zh) (Yìdàlì miàn)

• Czech: těstoviny f pl
• Danish: pasta (da) c
• Dutch: deegwaren (nl) f pl
• Esperanto: pasto (eo)
• Faroese: pasta f
• Finnish: pasta (fi)
• French: pâtes (fr) f pl, pâtes alimentaires (fr) f pl
• German: Teigwaren (de) f pl, Nudeln (de) f pl
• Greek: ζυμαρικά (el) n pl (zymariká)
• Hindi: पास्ता (pāstā)
• Hungarian: tészta (hu)
• Italian: pasta (it) f, impasto (it) m
• Japanese: パスタ (pasuta)
• Korean: 파스타 (ko) (paseuta)
• Kurdish: meqarne

• Latin: pasta
• Lithuanian: makaronas m, makaronai m pl
• Marathi: पास्ता m (pāstā)
• Norman: pâtes f pl (Jersey)
• Norwegian: pasta (no)
• Persian: پاستا‎‎ (pāsta)
• Polish: makaron (pl) m
• Portuguese: massa (pt) f
• Romanian: paste făinoase (ro) f pl
• Russian: макаро́ны (ru) pl (makaróny), макаро́нные изде́лия n pl (makarónnyje izdélija), (slang) па́ста (ru) f (pásta) (considered non-standard and has other meanings)
• Serbo-Croatian: testenina f
• Slovak: cestovina f
• Spanish: pastas (es) f pl
• Swedish: pasta (sv) c
• Tamil: மாச்சேவை (māccēvai)
• Thai: พาสตา (páas-dtâa)
• Turkish: makarna (tr)
• Ukrainian: макаронні вироби (makaronni vyroby)
• Welsh: pasta (cy)

dish or serving

• Finnish: pastaruoka (dish); pasta-annos (serving)
• German: Nudelgericht (de) n

• Thai: พาสตา (páas-dtâa)

type of pasta

• Finnish: pastalaji

• Thai: พาสตา (páas-dtâa)

AnagramsEdit

• patas, tapas

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CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek πάστα (pásta).

PronunciationEdit

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.ta/

NounEdit

pasta f (plural pastes)

1. paste, dough
2. (colloquial) money
3. pasta (dough made from wheat and water)
4. pasta (type of pasta)

Derived termsEdit

• pastís

Further readingEdit

• “pasta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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CebuanoEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Hyphenation: pas‧ta

Etymology 1Edit

Calque of English paste, from Middle French (modern pâte), from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek.

NounEdit

pasta

1. dental filling

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from English pasta, borrowed from Italian pasta, from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”).

NounEdit

pasta

1. pasta
   1. 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
   2. a dish or serving of pasta
   3. a type of pasta

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CzechEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Late Latin pasta; cf. Italian pasta, English paste.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈpasta/

• Audio

  (file)

NounEdit

pasta f

1. paste

DeclensionEdit

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	pasta	pasty
genitive	pasty	past
dative	pastě	pastám
accusative	pastu	pasty
vocative	pasto	pasty
locative	pastě	pastách
instrumental	pastou	pastami

Derived termsEdit

• zubní pasta

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DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Italian pasta.

NounEdit

pasta c (singular definite pastaen, plural indefinite pastaer)

1. pasta (food)
2. paste

DeclensionEdit

Declension of pasta

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pasta	pastaen	pastaer	pastaerne
genitive	pastas	pastaens	pastaers	pastaernes

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from pasta

• fuldkornspasta
• pastadej
• pastafabrik
• pastafabrikant
• pastaform
• pastakogebog

• pastakuvert
• pastamager
• pastaopskrift
• pastaprodukt
• pastaproduktion
• pastaret

• pastarør
• pastasalat
• pastaskrue
• pastastykke
• pastavare
• tandpasta

See alsoEdit

• makaroni
• nudel
• spaghetti

ReferencesEdit

• “pasta” in Den Danske Ordbog

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DutchEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from Late Latin pasta.

NounEdit

pasta f (plural pasta's, diminutive pastaatje n)

1. paste

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

NounEdit

pasta f (plural pasta's, diminutive pastaatje n)

1. pasta

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FaroeseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Italian pasta, from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰasta/
• Rhymes: -asta

NounEdit

pasta f (genitive singular pastu, uncountable)

1. pasta

DeclensionEdit

Declension of pasta (singular only)
f1s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	pasta	pastan
accusative	pastu	pastuna
dative	pastu	pastuni
genitive	pastu	pastunnar

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FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -ɑstɑ

NounEdit

pasta

1. pasta

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of pasta (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		pasta	pastat
genitive		pastan	pastojen
partitive		pastaa	pastoja
illative		pastaan	pastoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		pasta	pastat
accusative	nom.	pasta	pastat
	gen.	pastan
genitive		pastan	pastojen pastainrare
partitive		pastaa	pastoja
inessive		pastassa	pastoissa
elative		pastasta	pastoista
illative		pastaan	pastoihin
adessive		pastalla	pastoilla
ablative		pastalta	pastoilta
allative		pastalle	pastoille
essive		pastana	pastoina
translative		pastaksi	pastoiksi
instructive		—	pastoin
abessive		pastatta	pastoitta
comitative		—	pastoineen

CompoundsEdit

• pastakone
• tuorepasta

AnagramsEdit

• tapas

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IcelandicEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰasta/
• Rhymes: -asta

NounEdit

pasta n (genitive singular pasta, no plural)

1. pasta

DeclensionEdit

declension of pasta

n-w	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	pasta	pastað
accusative	pasta	pastað
dative	pasta	pastanu
genitive	pasta	pastans

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ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

pasta f (plural paste)

1. paste
2. pasta, noodles
3. dough
4. cake, tart
5. texture

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from pasta

• pasta abrasiva
• pasta alimentare
• pasta all'uovo
• pasta asciutta, pastasciutta
• pasta brisée
• pasta chimica
• pasta cresciuta
• pasta da carta

• pasta di alluminio
• pasta di fondo
• pasta di legno
• pasta di mandorle
• pasta di paglia
• pasta di stracci
• pasta di vetro
• pasta d'uomo

• pasta dura
• pasta fresca
• pasta frolla, pastafrolla
• pasta glutinata
• pasta margherita
• pasta meccanica
• pasta normale

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πάστα (pásta), from παστός (pastós), from πάσσω (pássō, “sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₁t- (“to shake”).

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.ta/

NounEdit

pasta f (genitive pastae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) paste

InflectionEdit

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	pasta	pastae
genitive	pastae	pastārum
dative	pastae	pastīs
accusative	pastam	pastās
ablative	pastā	pastīs
vocative	pasta	pastae

DescendantsEdit

• Catalan: pasta
• English: paste, pasta
• French: pâte
• Italian: pasta

• Occitan: pasta
• Portuguese: pasta
• Romanian: pastă
• Spanish: pasta

ParticipleEdit

pasta

1. nominative feminine singular of pastus
2. nominative neuter plural of pastus
3. accusative neuter plural of pastus
4. vocative feminine singular of pastus
5. vocative neuter plural of pastus

pastā

1. ablative feminine singular of pastus

ReferencesEdit

• pasta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pasta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pasta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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LatvianEdit

NounEdit

pasta m

1. genitive singular form of pasts

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

NounEdit

pasta m (definite singular pastaen, indefinite plural pastaer, definite plural pastaene)

1. pasta (usually uncountable)
2. paste

Derived termsEdit

• (sense 2) tannpasta

ReferencesEdit

• “pasta” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

NounEdit

pasta m (definite singular pastaen, indefinite plural pastaer or pastaar, definite plural pastaene or pastaane)

1. pasta (usually uncountable)
2. paste

Derived termsEdit

• (sense 2) tannpasta

ReferencesEdit

• “pasta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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PolishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Late Latin pasta; cf. Italian pasta, English paste.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈpasta/

NounEdit

pasta f

1. A soft mixture, paste

DeclensionEdit

declension of pasta

	singular	plural
nominative	pasta	pasty
genitive	pasty	past
dative	paście	pastom
accusative	pastę	pasty
instrumental	pastą	pastami
locative	paście	pastach
vocative	pasto	pasty

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from pasta

• pasta do butów
• pasta do zębów

• pasta kanapkowa
• pasta ścierna

• pasta termoprzewodząca

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PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek πάστα (pásta).

NounEdit

pasta f (plural pastas)

1. (cooking) dough (mix of flour and other ingredients)
2. paste

   Eu gosto de escovar os dentes com essa pasta de dente.

   I like to brush my teeth with this toothpaste.

3. folder (organizer)
4. (computing, Brazil) folder (container of computer files)
5. briefcase (case used for carrying documents)
6. (politics) ministry; portfolio (responsibilities of a government department)

SynonymsEdit

• (dough): massa
• (container of computer files): ficheiro, diretório
• (briefcase): maleta

Derived termsEdit

• pasta de dente

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Serbo-CroatianEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /pâsta/
• Hyphenation: pas‧ta

NounEdit

pȁsta f (Cyrillic spelling па̏ста)

1. pasta, polish

   pasta za zube ― toothpaste

   pasta za cipele ― shoe polish

DeclensionEdit

Declension of pasta

	singular	plural
nominative	pȁsta	paste
genitive	paste	pȃstā / pȃstī
dative	pasti	pastama
accusative	pastu	paste
vocative	pasto	paste
locative	pasti	pastama
instrumental	pastom	pastama

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SicilianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈpasta/, [ˈpaʃta]
• Hyphenation: pàs‧ta

NounEdit

pasta f

1. pasta
2. dough

Derived termsEdit

• pasta asciutta, pastasciutta
• sculapasta

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SlovakEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Late Latin pasta; cf. Italian pasta, English paste.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈpasta/

NounEdit

pasta f (genitive singular pasty, nominative plural pasty, genitive plural pást, declension pattern of žena)

1. paste

DeclensionEdit

Declension of pasta

	singular	plural
nominative	pasta	pasty
genitive	pasty	pást
dative	paste	pastám
accusative	pastu	pasty
locative	paste	pastách
instrumental	pastou	pastami

Derived termsEdit

• pastička
• pastový

Further readingEdit

• pasta in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

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SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

pasta f (plural pastas)

1. pasta
2. paste, dough
3. (Spain, slang) money, dough

Related termsEdit

• pasto
• pastar
• pastor

VerbEdit

pasta

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of pastar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of pastar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of pastar.

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TurkishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

NounEdit

pasta (definite accusative pastayı, plural pastalar)

1. (cooking) cake

Doğum günü pastası çok güzeldi.

[A/The] birthday cake was very nice.

DeclensionEdit

Inflection
Nominative	pasta
Definite accusative	pastayı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pasta	pastalar
Definite accusative	pastayı	pastaları
Dative	pastaya	pastalara
Locative	pastada	pastalarda
Ablative	pastadan	pastalardan
Genitive	pastanın	pastaların
Possessive forms Singular Plural 1st singular pastam pastalarım 2nd singular pastan pastaların 3rd singular pastası pastaları 1st plural pastamız pastalarımız 2nd plural pastanız pastalarınız 3rd plural pastaları pastaları

See alsoEdit

• kek

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WelshEdit

NounEdit

pasta m (uncountable)

1. pasta

MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pasta	basta	mhasta	phasta
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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West FrisianEdit

NounEdit

pasta c (plural pasta's)

1. pasta