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5-letter words (3 found)

ATAPS,PASTA,TAPAS,

4-letter words (8 found)

APTS,ATAP,PAST,PATS,SPAT,STAP,TAPA,TAPS,

3-letter words (12 found)

AAS,APT,ASP,ATS,PAS,PAT,PST,SAP,SAT,SPA,TAP,TAS,

2-letter words (6 found)

AA,AS,AT,PA,ST,TA,

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All 5 letters words made out of pasta

pasta apsta psata spata aspta sapta patsa aptsa ptasa tpasa atpsa tapsa pstaa sptaa ptsaa tpsaa stpaa tspaa astpa satpa atspa taspa stapa tsapa pasat apsat psaat spaat aspat sapat paast apast paast apast aapst aapst psaat spaat pasat apsat sapat aspat asapt saapt aaspt aaspt saapt asapt patas aptas ptaas tpaas atpas tapas paats apats paats apats aapts aapts ptaas tpaas patas aptas tapas atpas ataps taaps aatps aatps taaps ataps pstaa sptaa ptsaa tpsaa stpaa tspaa psata spata pasta apsta sapta aspta ptasa tpasa patsa aptsa tapsa atpsa stapa tsapa satpa astpa taspa atspa astap satap atsap tasap staap tsaap asatp saatp aastp aastp saatp asatp atasp taasp aatsp aatsp taasp atasp staap tsaap satap astap tasap atsap

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Definitions and meaning of pasta

pasta

Etymology

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 and patty.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: păsʹtə, IPA(key): /ˈpæstə/
  • (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/
  • Homophone: pastor (Australia, New Zealand, Northern England)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːstə, -æstə

Noun

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
  2. (uncountable) A dish or serving of pasta.
  3. (countable) A type of pasta.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pasta.

Hyponyms

  • See also Thesaurus:pasta

Derived terms

Related terms

  • pasta filata
  • paste

Descendants

Translations

Anagrams

  • ataps, patas, tapas

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pasta.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pásta

  1. paste
    Synonym: pulot
  2. (dentistry) filling

Derived terms

Catalan

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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
Derived terms

References

  • “pasta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “pasta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “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.

Etymology 2

Verb

pasta

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

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pas‧ta

Etymology 1

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

Noun

pasta

  1. dental filling

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English 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”).

Noun

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

Cimbrian

Etymology

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

Noun

pasta f

  1. (Luserna) pasta

References

  • 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

Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpasta]

Noun

pasta f

  1. paste

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • pasta in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • pasta in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • pasta in Internetová jazyková příručka

Danish

Etymology

From Italian pasta.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pasta c (singular definite pastaen, plural indefinite pastaer)

  1. pasta (food)
  2. paste

Declension

Derived terms

See also

  • makaroni
  • nudel
  • spaghetti

References

  • “pasta” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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.
Derived terms
  • chocoladepasta
  • hazelnootpasta
  • pastavreter
  • tandpasta
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: pasta
  • → Indonesian: pasta

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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

  1. pasta [from mid 19th c.]
Derived terms
  • pastamachine
  • pastasalade
  • pastasaus
  • pastavorm

Faroese

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pasta f (genitive singular pastu, uncountable)

  1. pasta

Declension

Finnish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

Noun

pasta

  1. pasta
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Late Latin pasta.

Noun

pasta

  1. paste
Declension
Derived terms

Further reading

  • “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 2024-01-01

Anagrams

  • Tapsa, tapas

Galician

Etymology

Attested since the 15th century. From Latin pasta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpastɐ]

Noun

pasta f (plural pastas)

  1. paste
  2. pasta
  3. dough
    Synonym: masa
  4. binding, cover of a book

Derived terms

  • empastar

References

  • “pasta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “pasta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “pasta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pasta n (genitive singular pasta, no plural)

  1. pasta

Declension

Indonesian

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pasta (first-person possessive pastaku, second-person possessive pastamu, third-person possessive pastanya)

  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.

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

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

Irish

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpˠasˠt̪ˠə/

Noun

pasta m (genitive singular pasta)

  1. pasta

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

  • Entries containing “pasta” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpa.sta/
  • Rhymes: -asta
  • Hyphenation: pà‧sta

Noun

pasta f (plural paste)

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

Derived terms

Descendants

Anagrams

  • spata

Latin

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpas.ta/, [ˈpäs̠t̪ä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpas.ta/, [ˈpäst̪ä]

Noun

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

  1. paste
  2. (New Latin) pasta
Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms
  • *pastīcius
Descendants

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • pāsta: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpaːs.ta/, [ˈpäːs̠t̪ä]
  • pāsta: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpas.ta/, [ˈpäst̪ä]
  • pāstā: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpaːs.taː/, [ˈpäːs̠t̪äː]
  • pāstā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpas.ta/, [ˈpäst̪ä]

Participle

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

Participle

pāstā

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

References

  • "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

Latvian

Noun

pasta m

  1. genitive singular of pasts

Mòcheno

Etymology

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

Noun

pasta f

  1. pasta

References

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

Noun

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

  1. pasta (usually uncountable)
  2. paste

Derived terms

  • (sense 2) tannpasta

References

  • “pasta” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pasta.

Noun

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

  1. pasta (usually uncountable)
  2. paste

Derived terms

  • (sense 2) tannpasta

References

  • “pasta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpas.ta/
  • Rhymes: -asta
  • Syllabification: pas‧ta

Etymology 1

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

Noun

pasta f

  1. paste (soft mixture)
  2. Italian pasta
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Clipping of copypasta.

Noun

pasta f

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

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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)
Derived terms
  • pasta dentífrica, pasta dos dentes

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pasta

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

Sardinian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpasta/

Noun

pasta f (plural pastas)

  1. paste
  2. pasta
  3. dough

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pȁsta f (Cyrillic spelling па̏ста)

  1. paste, polish
    pasta za zube ― toothpaste
    pasta za cipele ― shoe polish

Declension

Derived terms

  • pasta za zube
  • pasta za cipele

Sicilian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pasta f

  1. pasta
  2. dough

Derived terms

  • pasta asciutta, pastasciutta
  • sculapasta

Slovak

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpasta]

Noun

pasta f (genitive singular pasty, nominative plural pasty, genitive plural pást, declension pattern of žena)

  1. paste

Declension

Derived terms

  • pastička
  • pastový

Further reading

  • “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, 2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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)
  5. (slang) Ellipsis of pasta de cocaína (“cocaine paste”).
  6. Ellipsis of pasta de dientes (“toothpaste”).
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pasta

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

Further reading

  • “pasta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

pasta c

  1. pasta
  2. paste

Declension

Derived terms

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

See also

  • spaghetti
  • makaroner
  • ketchup
  • köttfärssås
  • nudel

References

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

Turkish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɑs.tɑ/

Noun

pasta (definite accusative pastayı, plural pastalar)

  1. (cooking) cake
    Doğum günü pastası çok güzeldi. ― The birthday cake was very nice.

Declension

See also

  • kek

References

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

Welsh

Etymology

From English pasta, from Italian pasta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpasda/, [ˈpʰasta]

Noun

pasta m (uncountable)

  1. pasta

Mutation

Further reading

  • 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

West Frisian

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Dutch pasta, from Italian pasta.

Noun

pasta c (plural pasta's)

  1. pasta

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