different between paste vs affix

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French paste (modern pâte), from Old French paste, from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek ????? (pásta). Doublet of pasta and patty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe?st/
• Rhymes: -e?st
• Homophone: paced

Noun

paste (countable and uncountable, plural pastes)

1. A soft moist mixture, in particular:
   1. One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
   2. (obsolete) Pastry.
      • 1860, Charles Dickens, Captain Murderer

        And that day month, he had the paste rolled out, and cut the fair twin's head off, and chopped her in pieces, and peppered her, and salted her, and put her in the pie, and sent it to the baker's, and ate it all, and picked the bones.

   3. One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
   4. 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.
5. (mineralogy) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: pasta

Translations

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) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
3. (transitive, slang) 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, slang) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

Translations

Anagrams

• Pesta, aspet, pates, peats, pâtés, sepat, septa, septa-, spate, speat, stape, tapes, tepas

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?past?]

Verb

paste

1. second-person plural imperative of pást

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

paste

1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of passen

Italian

Noun

paste f pl

1. plural of pasta

Anagrams

• pesta

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pa?s.te/, [?pä?s?t??]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /?pa?s.te/, [?pa?ste]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pas.te/, [?p?st??]

Participle

p?ste

1. vocative masculine singular of p?stus (“fed, nourished; having eaten, consumed; grazed, pastured; satisfied, gratified”)

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek ????? (pásta).

Noun

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

1. dough; paste
2. pastry

Derived terms

• pastaierie

Descendants

• Middle French: paste
  • French: pâte
• ? Middle English: paste
  • English: paste
    • ? Cebuano: pasta
  • Scots: paste, paist

References

• paste on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Portuguese

Verb

paste

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of pastar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of pastar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of pastar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of pastar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?paste/, [?pas.t?e]
• Hyphenation: pas?te

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

paste m (plural pastes)

1. (Mexico) pasty, pastie (a type of pie or turnover)
2. loofah (plant in the Luffa genus)

Alternative forms

• (loofah): paxte

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

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.

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin affixus, perfect passive participle of affigere (from ad- + figere), equivalent to ad- +? fix.

Pronunciation

• (noun) IPA^(key): /?æ.f?ks/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /?.?f?ks/
• Rhymes: -?ks

Noun

affix (plural affixes)

1. That which is affixed; an appendage.

   Synonyms: addition, supplement; see also Thesaurus:adjunct

2. (linguistic morphology) A bound morpheme added to the word’s stem's end.

   Synonyms: suffix, postfix

3. (linguistic morphology, broadly) A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem; a prefix, suffix, etc.

   Antonym: nonaffix

   Hyponyms: prefix, suffix, infix, circumfix, suprafix

4. (mathematics) The complex number ${\displaystyle a+bi}$ associated with the point in the Gauss plane with coordinates ${\displaystyle (a,b)}$.
5. (decorative art) Any small feature, as a figure, a flower, or the like, added for ornament to a vessel or other utensil, to an architectural feature.

Coordinate terms

• (types of affixes): adfix, ambifix, circumfix, confix, disfix, duplifix, infix, interfix, libfix, postfix, prefix, prefixoid, simulfix, suffix, suffixoid, suprafix, transfix
• clitic

Translations

Verb

affix (third-person singular simple present affixes, present participle affixing, simple past and past participle affixed)

1. (transitive) To attach.

   Synonyms: join, put together, unite; see also Thesaurus:join

   • Should they [caterpillars] affix them to the leaves of a plant improper for their food […]

2. (transitive) To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to.

3. (transitive) To fix or fasten figuratively; with on or upon.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymn of Heavenly Beauty

     Look thou no further, but affix thine eye/On that bright, shiny, round, still moving mass,/The house of blessed gods, which men call sky,/All sow'd with glist'ring stars more thick than grass...

Translations

Further reading

• affix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin affixum. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.f?ks/
• Hyphenation: af?fix

Noun

affix n (plural affixen, diminutive affixje n)

1. Affix (linguistics and mathematics)

Swedish

Noun

affix n

1. an affix

Declension