pasta
Spanish
noun
Definitions
- pasta
- paste, dough
- biscuit
- (Spain) money, dough
Etymology
Inherited from Latin pasta (dough, paste, pastry cake) derived from Ancient Greek πάστα (barley porridge).
Origin
Ancient Greek
πάστα
Gloss
barley porridge
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- paste English
- *pasticium Latin
- pasta Latin
- pastellum Latin
- pastillus Latin
- Pasta German
- pasta Italian
- pastiglia Italian
- pasta Dutch, Flemish
- pastille French
- empastar Spanish, Castilian
- empastillar Spanish, Castilian
- pastilla Spanish, Castilian
- pastillero Spanish, Castilian
- πάστα Ancient Greek
- πάστη Ancient Greek
- παστά Ancient Greek
- *kʷeh₁t- Proto-Indo-European
- pasta Portuguese
- pastilha Portuguese
- pasta Polish
- pasta Czech
- paste Old French
- pasta Catalan, Valencian
- pasta Galician
- pasta Slovak
- pasta Sicilian
- pastiya Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl