different between paste vs pastie

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 1

paste +? -ie

1960s.

Alternative forms

• pasty

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?st'i, IPA^(key): /?pe?sti/
• Homophone: pasty
• Rhymes: -e?sti

Noun

pastie (plural pasties)

1. An item worn (often by strippers) to conceal one's nipples.

Translations

Related terms

• paste

Etymology 2

13th century. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Alternative forms

• pasty

Pronunciation

• (UK) p?st'i, /?pæsti/, /"p{sti/
• Rhymes: -æsti
• (General Australian) päst'i, /?p??sti/, /"pA:sti/
• Rhymes: -??sti

Noun

pastie (plural pasties)

1. A type of seasoned meat pie, usually of a semicircular or distinctive shape.
2. (Northern Ireland) A circular, battered and deep-fried meat pie usually consisting of minced pork, onion, potato and seasoning and served in a bap or with chips. A peculiarity of Northern Irish "chippy" cuisine, rarely (if ever) seen outside the area.

Usage notes

The spelling pasty is considered correct in the United Kingdom but in Australia the spelling pastie is more common.

Derived terms

• party pastie

Translations

See also

• pie
• sausage roll

Anagrams

• Pitsea, patesi, petasi, petsai, pietàs