different between pastel vs subtle

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French pastel, from Italian pastello (“pastel”), from Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek ????? (pást?, “dough, paste”). Doublet of pastille and pastegh.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæst?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pæs?t?l/
• Rhymes: -æst?l, -?l

Noun

pastel (countable and uncountable, plural pastels)

1. Any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue, and lavender
2. A drawing made with any of those colors.
3. A type of dried paste used to make crayons.
4. A crayon made from such a paste.
5. Woad.

   Wool was dyed in the pastel vat.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish pastel.

Noun

pastel (plural pasteles)

1. A traditional dish in various Latin American countries, resembling a tamale, pasty, or calzone.

Anagrams

• Patels, leptas, palest, palets, peltas, petals, plates, pleats, septal, staple, tepals

Asturian

Noun

pastel m (plural pasteles)

1. cake (a sweet dessert)

Danish

Etymology

From French pastel, Italian pastello (“pastel”), from Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek ????? (pást?, “dough, paste”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /past?l/, [p?a?sd??l?]

Noun

pastel c (singular definite pastellen, plural indefinite pasteller)

1. pastel

Inflection

French

Etymology

From Italian pastello (“pastel”), from Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek ????? (pást?, “dough, paste”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pas.t?l/

Noun

pastel m (plural pastels)

1. (botany) woad
2. (art) pastel

Derived terms

• pastelliste

Related terms

• pâte
• pastille

Descendants

• ? English: pastel

Further reading

• “pastel” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pas.t?l]
• Hyphenation: pas?tèl

Etymology 1

From Portuguese pastel (“a type of pastry”), from Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek ????? (pást?, “dough, paste”).

Noun

pastèl (first-person possessive pastelku, second-person possessive pastelmu, third-person possessive pastelnya)

1. (cooking) a type of fried curry puff, similar to empanada.

Etymology 2

From Dutch pastel (“pastel”), from French pastel (“pastel”), from Italian pastello (“pastel”), from Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek ????? (pást?, “dough, paste”).

Noun

pastèl (first-person possessive pastelku, second-person possessive pastelmu, third-person possessive pastelnya)

1. (art) pastel,
   1. type of dried paste.
   2. drawing made with these paste.
   3. any of several subdued tints of colors.

Related terms

Further reading

• “pastel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Italian pastello.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pas?t?w/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /p???t??/
• Rhymes: -?w

Noun

pastel m (plural pastéis)

1. crayon
2. a fried pastry made of wheat flour, filled with cheese, meat or other fillings; comparable to German Teigtaschen.

Hyponyms

• pastel de vento

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: pastel

Romanian

Etymology

From French pastel, from French pastello.

Noun

pastel n (plural pasteluri)

1. pastel

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Old French pastel. Cognate with English pastel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pas?tel/, [pas?t?el]

Noun

pastel m (plural pasteles)

1. cake

   Synonym: torta

2. pastry
3. pie
4. (art) pastel

Hyponyms

Derived terms

(diminutive pastelillo or pastelito)

English

Alternative forms

• subtil, subtile, suttle (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sotil, soubtil, subtil, borrowed from Old French soutil, subtil, from Latin subt?lis (“fine, thin, slender, delicate”); probably, originally, “woven fine”, and from sub (“under”) + tela (“a web”), from texere (“to weave”). Displaced native Old English sm?ag.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?t'(?)l, IPA^(key): /?s?t(?)l/, [?s????]
• Rhymes: -?t?l

Adjective

subtle (comparative subtler or more subtle, superlative subtlest or most subtle)

1. Hard to grasp; not obvious or easily understood; barely noticeable.

   Antonym: simple

   • 1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem. Demonstrating the Existence and Providence of a God. In Seven Books, book I, London: Printed for S. Buckley, at the Dolphin in Little-Britain; and J[acob] Tonson, at Shakespear's Head over-against Catherine-Street in the Strand, OCLC 731619916; 5th edition, Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for G. Risk, G. Ewing, and W. Smith, in Dame's-street, 1727, OCLC 728300884, page 7:

     The mighty Magnet from the Center darts / This ?trong, tho' ?ubtile Force, thro' all the Parts: / Its active Rays ejaculated thence, / Irradiate all the wide Circumference.

2. (of a thing) Cleverly contrived.
3. (of a person or animal) Cunning, skillful.

   Synonyms: crafty, cunning, skillful

4. Insidious.

   Synonyms: deceptive, malicious

   • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Richard the Third, Act IV, scene 4:

     Thy age confirmed, proud, subtle, bloody, treacherous.

5. Tenuous; rarefied; of low density or thin consistency.
6. (obsolete) Refined; exquisite.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• subtle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• subtle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “subtle”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• bluest, bluets, bustle, butles, sublet