pasta
Meanings
Noun
- a dish that contains pasta as its main ingredient
- shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg
- 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.
- 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.
- Any type of noodle.
- A dish or serving of pasta.
- A type of pasta.
- dental filling.
Origin / 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
Scrabble Score: 7
pasta is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordpasta is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pasta is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 8
pasta is a valid Words With Friends word