Noun: pastel
| Singular | pastel |
| Plural | pastels; pasteles |
Sample Sentences
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Wool was dyed in the pastel vat.
Nouns inflected like pastel
great go,
great-go,
senhor,
afrancesado,
sprite halo,
shacko,
commando,
villiaco,
magic Negro,
Phnom Laang bent-toed gecko,
chacmool,
yerbal,
depressor,
bombolo,
bolivar,
bolívar,
buccinator,
boratto,
botargo,
slashed zero, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō)
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
4. Proto-Hellenic *-tós
5. Ancient Greek -τός (-tós)
6. Ancient Greek παστός (pastós)
7. Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor.
8. Latin pasta
9. Proto-Indo-European *-lós
10. Proto-Indo-European *-elós
11. Proto-Italic *-elos
12. Latin -lus
13. Latin -ellus
14. Latin pastellus
15. Proto-Indo-European *-om
16. Proto-Italic *-om
17. Latin -um
18. Latin pastellum
19. Italian pastelloder.
20. French pastelbor.
21. English pastel
22. Borrowed from French pastel, from Italian pastello (“pastel”), from Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek πάστη (pástē, “dough, paste”). Doublet of pastegh, pastiglia, pastila, pastilla, and pastille. See: French Nouns '
pastel', Italian Nouns '
pastello', Latin Nouns '
pasta'.
Verbs referencing "pastel"
Asturian Nouns
pastel, Galician Nouns
pastel, Spanish Nouns
pastel.