pasta
feminine
Classical Latin has no word for pasta the dish. Late Latin pasta meant "dough" or "paste", and modern Latin writers use the same word for pasta, borrowing the meaning back from Italian.
In late Latin texts pasta is any soft mass of dough. As a name for the dish it is a modern meaning.
Meaning: dish or serving (noun)
How does it change in a sentence?
pasta is a first-declension feminine noun: pasta, genitive pastae.
How do you pronounce it?
PAHS-tah
Did you know?
- Late Latin pasta was borrowed from Greek παστά (pastá), a dish of barley porridge, from a word meaning "sprinkled with salt".
Examples in context
- Hodiē pastam edimus.Today we are eating pasta.
- Pasta in aquā ferventī coquitur.Pasta is cooked in boiling water.
Example conversation
Marcus and Julia are planning dinner.
- MarcusQuid hodiē cēnābimus, Iūlia?What will we have for dinner today, Julia?
- JuliaPastam cum cāseō.Pasta with cheese.
- MarcusOptimē! Aquam calefaciam.Excellent! I will heat the water.
- JuliaGrātiās, Marce.Thank you, Marcus.
