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Fun fact: "pasta" literally means "paste" in Italian (and most languages from Latin).
by kilburn 6y ago
Fun fact: "pasta" literally means "paste" in Italian (and most languages from Latin).
- telesilla 6y agoThe Dutch word 'tandapasta' has always amused me no end. (toothpaste)
- pierot 6y agoJust ‘tandpasta’ :)
- legerdemain 6y agoAs does the French pâté. And yet, in English, they suggest very different foods.
- globular-toast 6y agoPasta, pastry, paste, pasty. All related words. The French for pastry is pâte. Pâté means "pasted" as in "pasted fish". The French aliment simply means food, although it's not spoken very often in France. The word exists in English but it's quite rare and normally used in legal contexts like so many other words of French origin.
- bookofjoe 6y agoRelated: the part of cheese that's not the rind is called the paste.