pasta

See also: pastá, pastā, påstå, and pastă

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English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• (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

Noun

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.

Quotations

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

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:pasta

Related terms

• paste

Translations

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: Nudeln (de) f pl; (formal, specialist) Teigwaren (de) f pl; (commercial sometimes) Pasta (de) f
• Greek: ζυμαρικά (el) n pl (zymariká)
• Hindi: पास्ता (pāstā)
• Hungarian: tészta (hu)
• Icelandic: pasta n
• Italian: pasta (it) f, impasto (it) m
• Japanese: パスタ (pasuta)
• Korean: 파스타 (ko) (paseuta)

• Kurdish: meqarne (ku)
• Latin: collȳra f, pasta (Late)
• Lithuanian: makaronas m, makaronai m pl
• Marathi: पास्ता m (pāstā)
• Norman: pâtes f pl (Jersey)
• Norwegian: pasta (no)
• Persian: پاستا‎ (pâsta)
• 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: pasta (es) f
• 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: Nudeln (de) f pl; Nudelgericht (de) n

• Thai: พาสตา (páas-dtâa)

type of pasta

• Finnish: pastalaji

• Thai: พาสตา (páas-dtâa)

Anagrams

• patas, tapas

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Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pasta f (plural pastes)

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

Derived terms

• pastís

Further reading

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

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pas‧ta

Etymology 1

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

Noun

pasta

1. dental filling

Etymology 2

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”).

Noun

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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Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpasta/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

pasta f

1. paste

Declension

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 terms

• zubní pasta

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Danish

Etymology

From Italian pasta.

Noun

pasta c (singular definite pastaen, plural indefinite pastaer)

1. pasta (food)
2. paste

Declension

Declension of pasta

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

Derived terms

• fuldkornspasta
• pastadej
• pastafabrik
• pastafabrikant
• pastaform
• pastakogebog
• pastakuvert
• pastamager
• pastaopskrift
• pastaprodukt
• pastaproduktion
• pastaret
• pastarør
• pastasalat
• pastaskrue
• pastastykke
• pastavare
• tandpasta

 

See also

• makaroni
• nudel
• spaghetti

References

• “pasta” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin pasta.

Noun

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

1. paste

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

Noun

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

1. pasta

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Faroese

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pasta f (genitive singular pastu, uncountable)

1. pasta

Declension

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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Finnish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑstɑ

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

Noun

pasta

1. pasta

Declension

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

Compounds

• pastakone
• tuorepasta

Etymology 2

From Late Latin pasta.

Noun

pasta

1. paste

Declension

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

Compounds

• sinkkipasta

Anagrams

• tapas

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Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pasta n (genitive singular pasta, no plural)

1. pasta

Declension

declension of pasta

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

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Italian

Etymology

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

Noun

pasta f (plural paste)

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

Derived terms

• pasta abrasiva
• pasta alimentare
• pasta all'uovo
• pasta asciutta
• 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
• pastafrolla
• pasta frolla
• pasta glutinata
• pasta margherita
• pasta meccanica
• pasta normale
• pastasciutta
• pasticca

 

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.ta/

Noun

pasta f (genitive pastae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) paste

Declension

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pasta	pastae
Genitive	pastae	pastārum
Dative	pastae	pastīs
Accusative	pastam	pastās
Ablative	pastā	pastīs
Vocative	pasta	pastae

Descendants

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

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

Participle

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

Participle

pastā

1. ablative feminine singular of pastus

References

• 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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Latvian

Noun

pasta m

1. genitive singular form of pasts

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

Noun

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

1. pasta (usually uncountable)
2. paste

Derived terms

• (sense 2) tannpasta

References

• “pasta” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

Noun

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

1. pasta (usually uncountable)
2. paste

Derived terms

• (sense 2) tannpasta

References

• “pasta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.sta/

Noun

pasta f

1. A soft mixture, paste

Declension

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 terms

• pasta do butów
• pasta do zębów
• pasta kanapkowa
• pasta ścierna
• pasta termoprzewodząca

 

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Noun

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)

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• pasta de dente

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pȁsta f (Cyrillic spelling па̏ста)

1. pasta, polish

   pasta za zube ― toothpaste

   pasta za cipele ― shoe polish

Declension

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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Sicilian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pasta f

1. pasta
2. dough

Derived terms

• pasta asciutta, pastasciutta
• sculapasta

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Slovak

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpasta/

Noun

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

1. paste

Declension

Declension of pasta

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

Derived terms

• pastička
• pastový

Further reading

• pasta in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpasta/, [ˈpast̪a]

Noun

pasta f (plural pastas)

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

Related terms

• pasto
• pastar
• pastor

Verb

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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Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

Noun

pasta (definite accusative pastayı, plural pastalar)

1. (cooking) cake

   Doğum günü pastası çok güzeldi.

   [A/The] birthday cake was very nice.

Declension

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 also

• kek

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Welsh

Noun

pasta m (uncountable)

1. pasta

Mutation

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 Frisian

Etymology

Noun

pasta c (plural pasta's)

1. pasta