pasta

Meaning

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.
2. (broadly, countable, 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.
3. (uncountable) A dish or serving of pasta.
4. (countable) A type of pasta.
5. (Philippines, uncountable) Dental filling.

Synonyms

macaroni

noodle

noodles

spaghetti

🍝

alimentary paste

dough

paste

confection

pastry

vermicelli

pasta shells

Translations

pasta

Nudeln

pâtes

pâtes alimentaires

Teigwaren

massa

pasta

pasta alimentare

pâte alimentaire

deegwaren

pâte

Pasta

pasta

ζυμαρικά

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpæstə/

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.
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kweh₁t-der.
Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Ancient Greek -τός (-tós)
Ancient Greek παστός (pastós)
Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor.
Late Latin pasta
Italian pastabor.
English pasta