pasta

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A food made from flour and water, shaped into forms like spaghetti and usually boiled.

   We had pasta with tomato sauce for dinner.

2. 2
   noun

   A dish whose main ingredient is pasta.

   This restaurant serves a delicious seafood pasta.

Etymology tree Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Ancient Greek -τός (-tós) Ancient Greek παστός (pastós) Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor. Late Latin pasta Philippine Spanish pastabor. English pasta Borrowed from Philippine Spanish pasta, from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”).

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