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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Partly from the following:[1]
- From Late Middle English pastil, pastill (“crushed leek leaves; vegetable pulp”),[2] borrowed from Old French pastel, probably from Latin pastillus, pastillum (“small bread roll; lozenge to freshen breath; medicated lozenge”), possibly from pāstus (“fed, nourished; consumed; having eaten; of an animal: driven to pasture, pastured; having browsed or grazed”) + -illus (diminutive suffix). Pāstus is the perfect passive participle of pāscō (“to feed, nourish; to maintain, support; of an animal: to drive to pasture, pasture; to browse, graze”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect; to shepherd”).
- Borrowed from French pastille (“candy or medicinal lozenge; small fragrant pellet burnt to perfume the air; pellet, pill”), and from its etymon Spanish pastilla (“candy or medicinal lozenge; small fragrant pellet burnt to perfume the air”), from Latin pastillus, pastillum; see above.
Doublet of pastegh, pastila, and pastilla.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpæst(ɪ)l/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /pæsˈtil/
- Rhymes: -ɪl (GA pronunciation)
- Hyphenation: past‧ille
Noun[edit]
pastille (plural pastilles)
- An often round and somewhat flat flavoured candy or sweet.
- Any small, usually round and somewhat flat, granular piece of material; a tablet.
- 2003, The Complete Drawing & Painting Course, →ISBN, page 201:
- Watercolors of professional quality come in small pastilles of dry pigment, in pans of semi-moist paint, or in tubes or bottles of liquid watercolor.
- (specifically, historical) A small pellet containing aromatic substances, burned to diffuse a fragrance or to disinfect or fumigate.
- (pharmacy)
- (historical) A medicinal pill, originally made of compressed herbs.
- A candy- or sweet-like lozenge, which, when sucked, releases substances that soothe a sore throat, and sometimes vapours to help unblock the nose or sinuses.
- Synonyms: cough drop, troche
Alternative forms[edit]
- pastil (obsolete)
Derived terms[edit]
- pastillation
- pastillator
- pastilled (adjective)
Translations[edit]
often round and somewhat flat flavoured candy or sweet
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small, usually round and somewhat flat, granular piece of material — see also tablet
small pellet containing aromatic substances, burned to diffuse a fragrance or to disinfect or fumigate
medicinal pill
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candy- or sweet-like lozenge, which, when sucked, releases substances that soothe a sore throat, and sometimes vapours to help unblock the nose or sinuses
Etymology 2[edit]
See pastel.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpæstl̩/
- (General American) IPA(key): /pæsˈtɛl/
- Rhymes: -æstəl, -ɛl
- Hyphenation: past‧ille
Noun[edit]
pastille (plural pastilles)
- (obsolete, art) Nonstandard spelling of pastel (“crayon made from a type of dried paste; drawing made using such crayons”).
- 1867, Indiana. State Board of Agriculture, Annual Report of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture:
- Best specimen of fancy painting, pastille, Emily C. Dills, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
- 1873, Annual Report of the State Board of Agriculture of the State of Missouri:
- Pastille, Crayon or Chalk on Photograph.
- 1913, University of Kansas, Bulletin - Volume 14, Issue 12 , page 35:
- Painting with water color, oil, or pastille, from still life.
References[edit]
- ^ Compare “pastille, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2021; “pastille, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ “pastil, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Further reading[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Spanish pastilla (“small roll of fragrant dough”), from Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), a diminutive form of pasta (“dough, paste”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pastille f (plural pastilles)
- (archaic) small roll of dough containing fragrant ingredients baked in order to perfume the air
- pastille, lozenge, drop (medicinal or candy)
- J’ai acheté des pastilles contre la toux.
- I bought some cough drops.
- lozenge-shaped figure in a design
- the conductive part of a printed circuit board that components are fixed to
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “pastille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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