pasta

Borrowed from Italian pasta (“paste; pasta, noodles”), from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), neuter plural of παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”), from Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō, “to sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₁t- (“to shake”). Doublet of paste.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: păsʹtə, IPA^(key): /ˈpæstə/
• (Northern England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈpastə/
• (General American) enPR: päsʹtə, IPA^(key): /ˈpɑstə/
• (Canada) enPR: păsʹtə, päsʹtə, IPA^(key): /ˈpæstə/, /ˈpɑstə/
• (General Australian) enPR: päsʹtə, IPA^(key): /ˈpɐːstə/
• (New Zealand) enPR: päsʹtə, IPA^(key): /ˈpɐːstɘ/
• (New Zealand, Broad) enPR: păsʹtə, IPA^(key): /ˈpɛstɘ/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /paːst̪aː/
• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /pɐːst̪ɐː/

• Audio (General American):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: pastor (Australia, New Zealand, Northern England)
• Rhymes: -æstə, -ɑːstə

pasta (countable and uncountable, plural pastas or (rare) paste)

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.

   Hyponym: macaroni

   1. (loosely) Any type of noodle.
2. (uncountable) A dish or serving of pasta.
3. (countable) A type of pasta.
4. (Philippines, dentistry, uncountable) dental filling.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pasta.

• See also Thesaurus:pasta

• ataps, patas, tapas

Borrowed from Spanish pasta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpasta/ [ˈpas.ta]
• Hyphenation: pas‧ta

pásta (Basahan spelling ᜉᜐ᜔ᜆ)

1. paste

   Synonym: pulot

2. (dentistry) filling

   Synonym: semento

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpas.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpas.ta]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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pasta f (plural pastes)

1. paste, putty
2. pulp (for papermaking)
3. dough
4. pasta (dough made from wheat and water)
5. (colloquial) money, dough

• “pasta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “pasta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “pasta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pasta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

pasta

1. inflection of pastar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Hyphenation: pas‧ta

Borrowed from Spanish pasta.

pasta

1. dental filling

Borrowed from Spanish 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”).

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

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

pasta f

1. (Luserna) pasta

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈpasta]

• Audio:

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pasta f

1. paste

• “pasta”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “pasta”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “pasta”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Italian pasta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpasda/, [ˈpʰæsd̥æ], [ˈpʰæstæ]

pasta c (singular definite pastaen, plural indefinite pastaer)

1. pasta (food)
2. paste

• makaroni
• nudel
• spaghetti

• “pasta” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑs.taː/
• Hyphenation: pas‧ta

Learned borrowing from Late Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”). Displaced paste.

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

1. paste [from late 16th c.]
   • 1596, Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien 1579-1592, part 2, publ. by Martinus Nijhoff (1956), page 147.

     Het eerste noemen die AEgyptenaren assis, 'twelc is poyer van kennep ofte hennep bladeren, met water tot een pasta ofte deegh ghemaect, daer af zy vijf ofte meer stucxkens eten, so groot als castanien, van 't vvelcke de ghene, die sulcks ghegheten hebben, een ure daernae niet anders worden dan of zy droncken waren, met ontsinnigheyt; worden van selfs gelijc oft zy opgetrocken waren, ende haer verschynen vremde ghesichten, daer in zy groote vermakelickheyt hebben.

     The first one the Egyptians call hashish, which is a powder of cannabis or hemp leaves, made into a paste or dough with water, of which they eat five or more pieces as big as chestnuts, from which those who have eaten such, become for an hour thereafter nothing but as if they were drunk, with senselessness; [they] become on their own as if they are in an exalted state, and strange visions appear to them, in which they have great amusement.

• chocoladepasta
• hazelnootpasta
• pastavreter
• tandpasta

• Afrikaans: pasta
• → Indonesian: pasta

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

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

1. pasta [from mid 19th c.]
   • 1866, S. J. van den Bergh, “Een Engelschman onder de roovers”, in De Gids, volume 30, page 334:

     Een groot vuur brandde lustig onder een ketel gevuld met pasta, eene soort van macaroni, waarboven gansche brokken sneeuw werden gesmolten die met een overvloed van warme geitenmelk, ons tot drank verstrekten.

     A large fire burned eagerly under a cauldron filled with pasta, a type of macaroni, above which entire chunks of snow were molten that served us as a beverage [together] with an abundance of warm goat milk.

• pastamachine
• pastasalade
• pastasaus
• pastavorm

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”).

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

pasta f (genitive singular pastu, uncountable)

1. pasta

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑstɑ/, [ˈpɑ̝s̠tɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑstɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pas‧ta
• Hyphenation^(key): pas‧ta

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

pasta

1. pasta

From Late Latin pasta.

pasta

1. synonym of tahna (“paste”)

• “pasta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 January 2024

• Tapsa, tapas

First attested in the 15th century. From Latin pasta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpasta/ [ˈpas̺.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -asta
• Hyphenation: pas‧ta

pasta f (plural pastas)

1. paste
   • 1409, G. Pérez Barcala, editor, A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 172:

     filla o vinagre ben forte e a greda alva muda et pouco de sal ben mundo, e amasa todo moi ben ata que se faça ende ũa pasta mole.

     take a strong vinegar and ground white clay and a little salt, finely ground, and mix very well everything till it becames a soft paste

2. pasta
3. dough

   Synonym: masa

4. binding, cover of a book

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pasta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pasta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pasta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “pasta”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “pasta” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

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

pasta n (genitive singular pasta, no plural)

1. pasta

From Dutch pasta (“pasta, paste”), from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”). Doublet of pastel.

• The sense of pasta is loaned via Italian pasta.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpasta/ [ˈpas.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -asta
• Syllabification: pas‧ta

pásta (plural pasta-pasta)

1. paste: a soft moist mixture
2. 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; a dish or serving of pasta
   2. a type of pasta

• “pasta” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpˠasˠt̪ˠə/

pasta m (genitive singular pasta)

1. pasta

• “pasta”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpas.ta/
• Rhymes: -asta
• Hyphenation: pà‧sta

pasta f (plural paste)

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

• spata

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpas.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpas.t̪a]

pasta f (genitive pastae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. paste
2. (New Latin) pasta

First-declension noun.

• *pastīcius

Unsorted borrowings (many or all via French/Italian):

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• pāsta: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpaːs.ta]
• pāsta: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpas.t̪a]
• pāstā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpaːs.taː]
• pāstā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpas.t̪a]

pāsta

1. inflection of pāstus (“fed, nourished; having eaten, consumed; grazed, pastured; satisfied, gratified”):
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

pāstā

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

• "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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pasta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1123.
• pasta in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 1502

pasta m

1. genitive singular of pasts

Borrowed from English pasta, from Italian pasta, from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), neuter plural of παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”), from Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō, “to sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₁t- (“to shake”). Doublet of pes.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpasta/ [ˈpas.t̪a]

  • Audio (Malaysia):

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• Rhymes: -asta, -ta, -a
• Hyphenation: pas‧ta

pasta (Jawi spelling ڤستا, plural pasta-pasta)

1. pasta

• “pasta” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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

pasta f

1. pasta

• “pasta” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

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

1. pasta (usually uncountable)
2. paste

• (sense 2) tannpasta

• “pasta” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

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

1. pasta (usually uncountable)
2. paste

• (sense 2) tannpasta

• “pasta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpas.ta/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -asta
• Syllabification: pas‧ta

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

pasta f

1. paste (soft mixture)
2. Italian pasta

Clipping of copypasta.

pasta f

1. (Internet slang) copypasta (block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else)

   Synonym: copypasta

• pasta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pasta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -astɐ, (Portugal) -aʃtɐ

• Audio (Brazil):

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From Old Galician-Portuguese pasta, from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá).

Cognate with Galician pasta.

pasta f (plural pastas)

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

   Synonym: massa

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) folder (container of computer files)

   Synonym: diretório

5. briefcase (case used for carrying documents)

   Synonym: maleta

6. (politics) ministry; portfolio (responsibilities of a government department)
7. (Portugal, slang, uncountable) money

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dinheiro

• → Hunsrik: Pasda

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pasta

1. inflection of pastar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “pasta”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “pasta”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpasta/

pasta f (plural pastas)

1. paste
2. pasta
3. dough

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

pȁsta f (Cyrillic spelling па̏ста)

1. paste, polish

   pasta za zube ― toothpaste

   pasta za cipele ― shoe polish

• pasta za zube
• pasta za cipele

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

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

pasta f

1. pasta
2. dough

• pasta asciutta, pastasciutta
• sculapasta

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈpasta]

pasta f (relational adjective pastový, diminutive pastička)

1. paste

• “pasta”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈpasta/ [ˈpas.t̪a]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -asta
• Syllabification: pas‧ta

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

pasta f (plural pastas)

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

   Synonyms: (Latin America) plata, lana, dinero

   • 2006, Irvine Welsh, Federico Corriente Basús transl., Porno, Anagrama (→ISBN)

     No está tan engreído como de costumbre; parece bien jodido. «No lo entiendo, Spud. Pensé que me quedaba mucha pasta para las vacaciones; tenía previsto llevarme a mi hija por ahí. […]»

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

5. (slang) ellipsis of pasta de cocaína (“cocaine paste”)
6. ellipsis of pasta de dientes (“toothpaste”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pasta

1. inflection of pastar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “pasta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• Audio:

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pasta c

1. pasta

   koka pasta

   cook [boil, literally] pasta

2. paste

• currypasta (“curry paste”)
• sockerpasta (“sugar paste”)

• spaghetti
• makaroner
• ketchup
• köttfärssås
• nudel

• pasta in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• pasta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pasta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From Ottoman Turkish پاسته (pasta, “pasta”), borrowed from Italian pasta.

• IPA^(key): /pɑs.tɑ/

• Audio:

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pasta (definite accusative pastayı, plural pastalar)

1. (cooking) cake

   Doğum günü pastası çok güzeldi. ― The birthday cake was very nice.

• kek

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پاسته”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 433

From English pasta, from Italian pasta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpasda/, [ˈpʰasta]

pasta m (uncountable)

1. pasta

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pasta”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Probably borrowed from Dutch pasta, from Italian pasta.

pasta c (plural pasta's)

1. pasta