Pasta Definition
pästə
noun
A flour paste or dough made of semolina and dried, as for spaghetti and macaroni, or used fresh, as for ravioli.
Webster's New World
Any food or foods made of this.
Webster's New World
A prepared dish containing pasta as its main ingredient.
American Heritage
Other Word Forms of Pasta
Noun
Singular:
pasta
Plural:
pastasOrigin of Pasta
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From Italian pasta, from Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste"), from Ancient Greek παστά (pasta, “barley porridge"), from παστός (pastos, “sprinkled with salt")
From Wiktionary
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Italian from Late Latin paste, pastry cake paste1
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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