paste

See also: Paste, pasté, paște, and Paște

English

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Etymology

From Middle French (modern pâte), from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peɪst/

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• Rhymes: -eɪst
• Homophone: paced

Noun

paste (countable and uncountable, plural pastes)

1. A soft mixture, in particular:
   1. One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
   2. One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
   3. 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.
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 (travel) (link), 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' 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 (link), page 75 of 346:

   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.

Translations

a soft mixture

• Czech: kaše (cs) f, pasta (cs) f
• German: Paste (de) f
• Greek: πολτός (el) m (poltós), αλοιφή (el) f (aloifí)
• Hungarian: paszta (hu), krém (hu), kenőcs (hu)

• Irish: taos (ga) m, leafaos m
• Italian: impasto (it) m
• Russian: паста (ru) f (pásta)
• Spanish: pasta (es) f

soft mixture used in making pastry

• Bashkir: ҡамыр (qamïr)
• Czech: těsto (cs) n
• French: pâte (fr) f
• German: Teig (de) m
• Hungarian: tészta (hu)

• Irish: leafaos m
• Italian: pasta (it) f
• Scottish Gaelic: taois f
• Spanish: masa (es) f

soft mixture of pounded foods

• Czech: pomazánka f, paštika (cs) f
• Finnish: tahna (fi)
• French: pâte (fr)
• German: Paste (de) f, Pastete (de) f
• Greek: πολτός (el) m (poltós), αλοιφή (el) f (aloifí)

• Hungarian: pástétom (hu)
• Irish: leafaos m
• Malay: pes
• Spanish: paté (es) m, budín m

an adhesive paste

• Czech: lepidlo (cs) n
• Estonian: kliister
• German: Kleister (de), Klebstoff (de) n, Kitt (de) m
• Greek: κόλλα (el) f (kólla)
• Hungarian: csiriz (hu)
• Irish: taos (ga) m

• Italian: colla (it) f
• Luxembourgish: Pap m
• Scots: batter
• Scottish Gaelic: glaodh m
• Spanish: engrudo (es) m, cola (es) f

lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone thereof

• Finnish: korulasi
• French: strass (fr) m, stras (fr) m
• German: Strass (de) m
• Hungarian: strassz

• Italian: strass m
• Portuguese: strass m
• Spanish: pasta (es) f

Verb

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. (intransitive, computing) To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video, movie container etc.) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
3. (transitive, informal) To strike or beat someone or something.
   • 1943, William Saroyan, The Human Comedy, chapter 23,

     He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.

4. (transitive, informal) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

Translations

to cause to stick, adhere

• Arabic: لصق (laSaqa)
• Catalan: enganxar (ca)
• Czech: lepit
• Dutch: plakken (nl)

• Greek: κολλώ (el) (kolló)
• Jèrriais: cliuter
• Latin: agglūtinō
• Scottish Gaelic: glaodh

to insert a piece of text

• Catalan: enganxar (ca)
• Czech: vložit (cs)
• Dutch: plakken (nl)
• French: coller (fr)
• German: einfügen (de)
• Greek: επικολλώ (el) (epikolló)
• Hungarian: beilleszt (hu)

• Latin: agglūtinō
• Polish: wklejać
• Portuguese: colar (pt)
• Romanian: lipi (ro)
• Russian: вставить (ru) (vstávit’)
• Scottish Gaelic: cuir ann
• Swedish: klistra in (sv)

Anagrams

• pates, pâtés, peats, septa, spate, stape, tapes

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Pronunciation

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Verb

paste

1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of passen

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Italian

Noun

paste f pl

1. plural form of pasta

Anagrams

• pesta

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Latin

Participle

paste

1. vocative masculine singular of pastus

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Old French

Noun

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

1. dough; paste
2. pastry

Descendants

• English: paste, pastry

References

• paste on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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Spanish

paste from Mexico City

Noun

paste m (plural pastes)

1. (Mexico) pasty, pastie (a type of pie or turnover)

Verb

paste

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of pastar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of pastar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of pastar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of pastar.