pastel

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpæstl̩/
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• General-American: /pæsˈtɛl/
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• rhymes with -æstəl
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• rhymes with -ɛl
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• /pæsˈtɛl/
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• /pɑsˈtɛl/
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• CMU ARPABET: P AE0 S T EH1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τός (-tós) Ancient Greek παστός (pastós) Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor. Latin pasta Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Latin pastellus Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Italic *-om Latin -um Latin pastellum Italian pastelloder. French pastelbor. English 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 pastegh, pastiglia, pastila, pastilla, and pastille.

Etymology tree Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τός (-tós) Ancient Greek παστός (pastós) Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor. Latin pasta Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Latin pastellus Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Italic *-om Latin -um Latin pastellum Italian pastelloder. Old French pastelder. Spanish pastelbor. English pastel Borrowed from Spanish pastel, ultimately the same word as Etymology 1.

45 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: պաստել (pastel) — any of several subdued tints of colors
• Czech: pastelová barva — any of several subdued tints of colors
• Finnish: pastellisävy — any of several subdued tints of colors
• German: Pastellfarbe — any of several subdued tints of colors
• Hungarian: pasztell — any of several subdued tints of colors
• Japanese: パステルカラー (pasuteru karā) — any of several subdued tints of colors
• Polish: pastel — any of several subdued tints of colors
• Portuguese: pastel — any of several subdued tints of colors
• Russian: пасте́ль (pastɛ́lʹ) — any of several subdued tints of colors
• Spanish: color pastel — any of several subdued tints of colors
• Spanish: tono pastel — any of several subdued tints of colors
• Turkish: pastel — any of several subdued tints of colors
• Bulgarian: пастел (pastel) — drawing made with these colors
• Chinese Mandarin: 粉画 — drawing made with these colors
• Czech: pastel — drawing made with these colors
• Finnish: pastelli — drawing made with these colors
• Finnish: pastellityö — drawing made with these colors
• Polish: pastel — drawing made with these colors
• Portuguese: pastel — drawing made with these colors
• Russian: пасте́ль (pastɛ́lʹ) — drawing made with these colors
• Yiddish: פּאַסטעל (pastel) — drawing made with these colors
• Chinese Mandarin: 色素粉末 — type of dried paste
• Chinese Mandarin: 粉彩 (fěncǎi) — type of dried paste
• Polish: pastel — type of dried paste
• Portuguese: pastel — type of dried paste
• Russian: пасте́ль (pastɛ́lʹ) — type of dried paste
• Vietnamese: phấn tiên — type of dried paste
• Armenian: պաստել (pastel) — crayon made from such a paste
• Belarusian: пастэ́ль (pastélʹ) — crayon made from such a paste
• Bulgarian: пастел (pastel) — crayon made from such a paste
• Chinese Mandarin: 蠟筆 /蜡笔 (cǎisè làbǐ) — crayon made from such a paste
• Chinese Mandarin: 油畫棒 /油画棒 — crayon made from such a paste
• Chinese Mandarin: 粉畫兒筆 /粉画儿笔 — crayon made from such a paste
• Czech: barevná křída — crayon made from such a paste
• Finnish: pastelliliitu — crayon made from such a paste
• French: pastel — crayon made from such a paste
• Georgian: პასტელი (ṗasṭeli) — crayon made from such a paste
• Hungarian: pasztellkréta — crayon made from such a paste
• Japanese: パステル (pasuteru) — crayon made from such a paste
• Korean: 파스텔 (paseutel) — crayon made from such a paste
• Polish: pastel — crayon made from such a paste
• Portuguese: pastel — crayon made from such a paste
• Russian: пасте́ль (pastɛ́lʹ) — crayon made from such a paste
• Ukrainian: пасте́ль (pastélʹ) — crayon made from such a paste
• Yiddish: פּאַסטעל־קרײַדל (pastel-kraydl) — crayon made from such a paste