pastel

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 pastille and pastegh.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpæstl̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pæsˈtɛl/
• Rhymes: -æstəl, -ɛl
• Hyphenation: past‧el

pastel (countable and uncountable, plural pastels)

1. (color) Any of several subdued tints of colors, usually associated with pink, peach, yellow, green, blue, and lavender
2. (art) A drawing made with any of those colors.
3. A type of dried paste used to make crayons.
4. A crayon made from such a paste.
5. Woad.

   Wool was dyed in the pastel vat.

• (drawing; crayon): pastille (nonstandard, obsolete)

Borrowed from Spanish pastel.

pastel (plural pasteles)

1. A traditional dish in various Latin American countries, resembling a tamale, pasty, or calzone.

• Patels, Staple, leptas, palest, palets, peltas, petals, plates, pleats, septal, staple, tepals

pastel m (plural pasteles)

1. cake (a sweet dessert)

From French pastel, Italian pastello (“pastel”), from Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek πάστη (pástē, “dough, paste”).

• IPA^(key): /pastɛl/, [pʰaˈsd̥ɛlˀ]

pastel c (singular definite pastellen, plural indefinite pasteller)

1. pastel

From Italian pastello (“pastel”), from Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek πάστη (pástē, “dough, paste”).

• IPA^(key): /pas.tɛl/

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pastel m (plural pastels)

1. (botany) woad
2. (art) pastel

• pastelliste

• pâte
• pastille

• → English: pastel
• → Danish: pastel
• → Dutch: pastel
  • → Indonesian: pastel
• → Romanian: pastel

• “pastel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

pastel f (plural pasteis)

1. cake

• “pastel” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

From Medieval Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), from Latin pasta (“dough, paste”), ultimately from Ancient Greek πάστη (pástē, “dough, paste”). Doublet of pasta.

• For the sense of a type of fried curry puff, from Portuguese pastel (“a type of pastry”), from above.
• For the sense of pastel, from Dutch pastel (“pastel”), from French pastel (“pastel”), from Italian pastello (“pastel”), from above.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpas.tɛl]
• Hyphenation: pas‧tèl

pastèl (first-person possessive pastelku, second-person possessive pastelmu, third-person possessive pastelnya)

1. (cooking) a type of fried curry puff, similar to empanada.
2. (art) pastel:
   1. type of dried paste.
   2. drawing made with these paste.
   3. any of several subdued tints of colors.

• “pastel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From Italian pastello.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
• Hyphenation: pas‧tel

pastel m (plural pastéis)

1. crayon
2. a fried pastry made of wheat flour, filled with cheese, meat or other fillings; comparable to German Teigtaschen

• pastel de nata
• pastel de vento

• → Indonesian: pastel

From French pastel, from Italian pastello.

pastel n (plural pasteluri)

1. pastel

From Old French pastel. Cognate with English pastel.

• IPA^(key): /pasˈtel/ [pasˈt̪el]

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• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: pas‧tel

pastel m (plural pasteles)

1. cake

   Synonym: torta

2. pastry
3. pie
4. (art) pastel

• “pastel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• pastle, peltas, plaste