πάστα
Greek (Cypriot)
noun
Definitions
- layered cake with cream
- pasta spaghetti, macaroni, etc
- paste
- (figuratively) nature, quality
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian pasta (pasta, dough) derived from Ancient Greek πάστα (barley porridge) derived from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₁t- (shake).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*kʷeh₁t-
Gloss
shake
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
🤝
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- pasta English
- pasta Finnish
- pasta Latin
- percutere Latin
- quatio Latin
- quatiō Latin
- colapasta Italian
- pasta Italian
- pastaio Italian
- pasticceria Italian
- pastiera Italian
- pastificio Italian
- pastoso Italian
- pastume Italian
- tagliapasta Italian
- πάσσω Ancient Greek
- πάστα Ancient Greek
- *kʷeh₁t- Proto-Indo-European
- pasta Norwegian Bokmål
- パスタ Japanese
- pasta Norwegian Nynorsk
- pasta Danish
- pasta Icelandic
- pastă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- οδοντόπαστα Greek (modern)
- παστός Greek (modern)
- pasta Turkish
- pasta Faroese
- პასტა Georgian
- pasta Cimbrian
- 파스타 Korean
- pasta Western Frisian
- pasta Mòcheno