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Added 9 October 2026

paste

/peɪst/ noun

In Latin: intrīta Wiktionary

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A soft moist mixture, in particular: One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry. Pastry. One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste. One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.
One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.

verb

To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.

verb

To strike or beat someone or something.
To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

noun

plural of pasta

Origin

From Middle English paste, from Old French paste (modern pâte), from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá). Doublet of pasta. The verb is from the noun. Middle English had pasten (“to make a paste of; bake in a pastry”), also from the noun; compare Latin pistō and Medieval Latin pastillātus.

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