pastel

Borrowed from French pastel, from Italian pastello (“pastel”), from Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek πάστη (pástē, “dough, paste”). Doublet of pastegh, pastiglia, pastila, pastilla, and pastille.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpæstl̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /pæsˈtɛl/
• Rhymes: -æstəl, -ɛl
• Hyphenation: past‧el

pastel (countable and uncountable, plural pastels)

1. Any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue, and lavender.
2. (art) A drawing made with any of those colors.
3. A type of dried paste used to make crayons.
4. A crayon made from such a paste.
5. Woad.

   Wool was dyed in the pastel vat.

• (drawing; crayon): pastille (nonstandard, obsolete)

Borrowed from Spanish pastel, ultimately the same word as Etymology 1.

• IPA^(key): /pæsˈtɛl/, /pɑsˈtɛl/

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pastel (countable and uncountable, plural pastels or pasteles)

1. A traditional dish in various Latin American countries and in Indonesia, resembling a tamale, pasty, or calzone.
2. A Filipino stew made with vegetables, sausages, and chicken or other meat in a creamy sauce.

• tepals, Stapel, septal, Staple, peltas, Patels, palest, Pleats, leptas, plates, petals, staple, palets, patels, pleats

pastel m (plural pasteles)

1. cake (a sweet dessert)

• IPA^(key): [ˈpastɛl]

pastel m inan

1. pastel

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

From French pastel, Italian pastello (“pastel”), from Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek πάστη (pástē, “dough, paste”).

• IPA^(key): /pastɛl/, [pʰaˈsd̥ɛlˀ]

pastel c (singular definite pastellen, plural indefinite pasteller)

1. pastel

From Italian pastello (“pastel”), from Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek πάστη (pástē, “dough, paste”). Doublet of pastille.

• IPA^(key): /pas.tɛl/

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pastel m (plural pastels)

1. (botany) woad
2. (art) pastel

• pastelliste

• pâte
• pastille

• → English: pastel
• → Danish: pastel
• → Dutch: pastel
  • → Indonesian: pastel
• → Romanian: pastel

• “pastel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

pastel f (plural pasteis)

1. cake

• “pastel”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpastɛl/ [ˈpas.t̪ɛl]
• Syllabification: pas‧tel

From Portuguese pastel (“a type of pastry”). Doublet of pasta.

pastel (plural pastel-pastel)

1. (cooking) a type of fried curry puff, similar to empanada

From Dutch pastel, from French pastel, from Italian pastello. Related to the first etymology.

pastel (plural pastel-pastel)

1. pastel (type of dried paste)
2. pastel (drawing made with these paste)
3. pastel (any of several subdued tints of colors)

   Synonym: malis

• “pastel” 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.

Borrowed from French pastel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpas.tɛl/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -astɛl
• Syllabification: pas‧tel

pastel m inan (related adjective pastelowy)

1. pastel (type of dried paste used to make crayons)
3. (chiefly in the plural) pastel (paint in the form of a soft crayon, used to draw without clear contours)
4. pastel (painting technique that involves the use of pastel)
6. pastel (painting painted with pastels)
7. pastel (any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue, and lavender)
8. (cosmetics) eye shadow (cosmetic in the form of a light powder for eyelids or cheeks)

   Synonyms: cień, cień do powiek

9. variety of mink with a light brown coat in various shades

• pastel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pastel in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• pastel in PWN's encyclopedia

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
• Hyphenation: pas‧tel

Borrowed from Italian pastello.^[1][2]

pastel m (plural pastéis)

1. crayon

Borrowed from Old French pastel (modern pâte).^[1][2]

pastel m (plural pastéis)

1. a fried pastry made of wheat flour, filled with cheese, meat or other fillings; comparable to German Teigtaschen

• → Indonesian: pastel

Borrowed from French pastel, from Italian pastello.

pastel n (plural pasteluri)

1. pastel

From Old French pastel. Cognate with English pastel.

• IPA^(key): /pasˈtel/ [pasˈt̪el]

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• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: pas‧tel

pastel m (plural pasteles)

1. pastry
2. cake; pie

   Synonyms: torta, tarta

3. (art) pastel

• “pastel”, 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

• pastle, peltas, plaste

• pastil — obsolete

Borrowed from Spanish pastel, from Old French pastel, from Italian pastello, from Medieval Latin pastellum, from Latin pasta, ultimately from Ancient Greek πάστη (pástē).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /pasˈtel/ [pɐsˈt̪ɛl]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: pas‧tel

pastél (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜎ᜔)

1. pie (pastry)
2. (art) pastel
3. (letterpress typography) pi (metal type that has been spilled)
4. pastel (Filipino stew made with vegetables, sausages, and chicken or other meat in a creamy sauce)

• “pastel”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “pastel”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 1043.
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[1], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 469: “Paſtel) Paſtil (pc) C. comida poco vſada”
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 447