pastille

See also: Pastille

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French pastille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pæsˈtil/

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Noun

pastille (plural pastilles)

1. A soft flavoured sweet/candy.
2. A medicinal pill, originally compressed herbs. A throat pastille is a large candy-like lozenge, which, when sucked, releases oils to soothe a sore throat and sometimes vapors to help unblock the nose or sinuses.
3. A small granular half-spheroid piece of material.
   • 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.

4. A small cone of charcoal and aromatic substances, burned either as incense, or as a means of diffusing an agreeable odour.
5. A paper tube containing a firework that causes a small wheel to rotate in burning.
6. (art, obsolete) Alternative form of pastel
   • 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.

Synonyms

• (medicinal pill): lozenge

Related terms

• pastillation
• pastillator

Translations

soft flavoured candy

• Catalan: pastilla (ca) f
• Finnish: pastilli
• French: pastille (fr) f
• German: Pastila f, Pastille (de) f
• Latin: pastillus m
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pastill m

  Nynorsk: pastill m

• Russian: пастила́ (ru) f (pastilá), монпансье́ (ru) n (monpansʹjé) (flat circle hard candy)

medicinal pill

• Catalan: pastilla (ca) f
• Finnish: kurkkupastilli
• German: Pastille (de) f
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pastill m

  Nynorsk: pastill m

• Russian: табле́тка (ru) f (tablétka), пасти́лка (ru) f (pastílka), лепёшка (ru) f (lepjóška), драже́ (ru) n (dražé), ледене́ц (ru) m (ledenéc) (as a hard candy)

small granular half spheroid piece of material

• Catalan: pastilla (ca) f
• Finnish: pastilli
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• French: pastille (fr) f

See also

• List of foods named after people

References

• “pastille”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “pastille”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• palliest, stipella

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French

Etymology

From Spanish pastilla (“small roll of fragrant dough”), from Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), a diminutive form of pasta (“dough, paste”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pas.tij/

Noun

pastille f (plural pastilles)

1. (archaic) small roll of dough containing fragrant ingredients baked in order to perfume the air
2. pastille, lozenge, drop (medicinal or candy)

   J’ai acheté des pastilles contre la toux.

   I bought some cough drops.

3. lozenge-shaped figure in a design
4. The conductive part of a printed circuit board that components are fixed to

Derived terms

• pastillage
• pastillette
• pastilleur
• pastilleux
• pastille de gomme

Related terms

• pâte
• pastel

Further reading

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