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pasta

[pah-stuh; especially Brit. pas-tuh] Origin

pas·ta

[pah-stuh; especially Brit. pas-tuh]
noun
any of various flour-and-egg food preparations of Italian origin, made of thin, unleavened dough and produced in a variety of forms, usually served with a sauce and sometimes stuffed.

Origin:
1870–75; < Italian < Late Latin. See paste
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pasta (ˈpæstə)
 
n
any of several variously shaped edible preparations made from a flour and water dough, such as spaghetti
 
[Italian, from Late Latin: paste1]

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pasta
1874, from It. pasta, from L.L. pasta "dough, pastry cake, paste," from Gk. pasta "barley porridge," probably originally "a salted mess of food," from neut. pl. of pastos (adj.) "sprinkled, salted," from passein "to sprinkle."
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