paste
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English paste, from Old French paste (modern pâte), from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá). Doublet of pasta and patty.
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Noun edit
paste (countable and uncountable, plural pastes)
- A soft moist mixture, in particular:
- One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
- (obsolete) Pastry.
- 1860, Charles Dickens, Captain Murderer:
- And that day month, he had the paste rolled out, and cut the fair twin's head off, and chopped her in pieces, and peppered her, and salted her, and put her in the pie, and sent it to the baker's, and ate it all, and picked the bones.
- One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
- One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.
- (physics) A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid
- A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.
- 2023 March 10, Alex Vadukul, quoting Nan Goldin, “Nan Goldin Is Ready for Oscar Night”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- Yesterday I bought some paste, which is a nickname for fake diamonds, and they were from Bergdorf’s.
- (obsolete) Pasta.
- 1766, Tobias George Smollett, Travels through France and Italy: Containing observations on character, customs, religion, government, police, commerce, arts, and antiquities. With a particular description of the town, territory, and climate of Nice. To which is added, A register of the weather, kept during a residence of eighteen months in that city, Volume 2[2] (travel), page 35:
- This is likewise the market for their oil, and the paste called macaroni, of which they make a good quantity.
- 1792, Arnaud Berquin, The childrens'[sic] companion: or, entertaining instructor for the youth of both sexes; designed, to excite attention and inculcate virtue. Selected from the works of Berquin, Genlis, Day, and others[3], page 75:
- Vermicelli for soups, is paste from Italy; so called because it looks like worms. My macaroni, paste from Italy—My salop, a root ground to powder—the root of one kind of orchis.
- (mineralogy) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.
Derived terms edit
- akiami paste shrimp
- alimentary paste
- almond paste
- anchovy paste
- bloater paste
- cocaine paste
- coca paste
- curry paste
- diamond paste
- fish paste
- fishpaste
- German paste
- hardpaste
- heat paste
- horse paste
- huf paste
- impaste
- Italian paste
- library paste
- London paste
- pasteboard
- paste bomb
- pastedown
- paste egg
- paste-horn
- pasteless
- paste soap
- pasteup
- paste-wash
- peanut paste
- phosphorous paste
- phosphorus paste
- pouf paste
- puff paste
- razor paste
- shrimp paste
- softpaste
- softpaste
- spackling paste
- stone-paste
- stone paste
- sugar paste
- thermal paste
- tomato paste
- toothpaste
- Vienna paste
- wheat paste
Descendants edit
- → Cebuano: pasta
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Verb edit
paste (third-person singular simple present pastes, present participle pasting, simple past and past participle pasted)
- (transitive) To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
- (transitive, computing) To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
- (transitive, slang) To strike or beat someone or something.
- 1943, William Saroyan, The Human Comedy, chapter 23:
- He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.
- (transitive, slang) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.
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Etymology 2 edit
Unadapted borrowing from Italian paste (“pastas”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpæsteɪ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɑsteɪ/
Noun edit
paste
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paste
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Audio (file)
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paste
- inflection of passen:
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
paste f pl
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Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpaːs.te/, [ˈpäːs̠t̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpas.te/, [ˈpäst̪e]
Participle edit
pāste
Old French edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá).
Noun edit
paste oblique singular, m (oblique plural pastes, nominative singular pastes, nominative plural paste)
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References edit
- paste on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Portuguese edit
Verb edit
paste
- inflection of pastar:
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
paste m (plural pastes)
Alternative forms edit
- paxte (loofah)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
paste
- inflection of pastar:
Further reading edit
- “paste”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014