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paste

See also: Paste, pasté, pastę, paște, and Paște

English

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Etymology 1

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    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₁t-der.
    Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō)
    Proto-Indo-European *-tós
    Ancient Greek -τός (-tós)
    Ancient Greek παστός (pastós)
    Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor.
    Late Latin pasta
    Old French pastebor.
    Middle English paste
    English paste

    From Middle English paste, from Old French paste (modern pâte), from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá). Doublet of pasta. The verb is from the noun.[1] Middle English had pasten (“to make a paste of; bake in a pastry”),[1] also from the noun;[2][3] compare Latin pistō and Medieval Latin pastillātus.[3]

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    paste (countable and uncountable, plural pastes)

    1. A soft moist mixture, in particular:
      1. One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
      2. (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.
      3. One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
      4. One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.
    2. (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
    3. 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.
    4. (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.
    5. (mineralogy) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.
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    • → Cebuano: pasta
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    Verb

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    paste (third-person singular simple present pastes, present participle pasting, simple past and past participle pasted)

    1. (transitive) To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
    2. (transitive, computing) To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
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    to insert a piece of text

    Etymology 2

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    Probably an alteration of baste (“beat”) influenced by some sense of the noun.[4]

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    paste (third-person singular simple present pastes, present participle pasting, simple past and past participle pasted)

    1. (transitive, slang) To strike or beat someone or something.
    2. (transitive, slang) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

    Etymology 3

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    Unadapted borrowing from Italian paste (“pastas”).

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    paste

    1. (rare) plural of pasta

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    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “paste (v.1.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
    2. ^ “paste, v.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
    3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 “pā̆sten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
    4. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “paste (v.2.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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    Czech

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    paste

    1. second-person plural imperative of pást

    Dutch

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    • IPA(key): /ˈpɑs.tə/
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    • Hyphenation: pas‧te

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    paste f (plural pastes)

    1. Obsolete spelling of pasta (“paste”).

    Etymology 2

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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    paste

    1. inflection of passen:
      1. singular past indicative
      2. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive

    Italian

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    • IPA(key): /ˈpa.ste/
    • Rhymes: -aste
    • Hyphenation: pà‧ste

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    paste f pl

    1. plural of pasta

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    Latin

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    pāste

    1. vocative masculine singular of pāstus (“fed, nourished; having eaten, consumed; grazed, pastured; satisfied, gratified”)

    Middle English

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    Etymology

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      From Old French paste, from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá).

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      paste (plural pastes)

      1. dough for the making of bread or pastry
      2. food; a meal
      3. a dough or paste used as a sealant, an adhesive, or a casing in which to cook medicinal substances

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      “paste, n..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

      Old French

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        From Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá).

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        paste oblique singular, m (oblique plural pastes, nominative singular pastes, nominative plural paste)

        1. dough; paste
        2. pastry

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        Portuguese

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        paste

        1. inflection of pastar:
          1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
          2. third-person singular imperative

        Spanish

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        paste from Mexico City

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        • IPA(key): /ˈpaste/ [ˈpas.t̪e]
        • Rhymes: -aste
        • Syllabification: pas‧te

        Etymology 1

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        (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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        paste m (plural pastes)

        1. (Mexico) pasty, pastie (a type of pie or turnover)
        2. loofah (plant in genus Luffa)
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        Etymology 2

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        See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

        Verb

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        paste

        1. inflection of pastar:
          1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
          2. third-person singular imperative

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