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pâté

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /ˈpæt.eɪ/
  • /pæˈteɪ/
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  • rhymes with -æteɪ
  • rhymes with Rhymes: -eɪ

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noun

Meaning 1

A finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables, sometimes with the addition of alcohol.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French pâté (“paste”). Doublet of pate (“cheese portion”) and patty.

Across languages

Translations

65 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: بَاتِيه (bātēh) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Arabic: بَاتِه (bātih) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Arabic: باتيه (baté) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Armenian: պաշտետ (paštet) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Azerbaijani: paştet — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Azerbaijani: əzmə — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Basque: pate — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Belarusian: паштэ́т (paštét) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Bulgarian: пасте́т (pastét) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Chinese Cantonese: 肝醬 /肝酱 (gon1 zoeng3) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Chinese Cantonese: 肉醬 /肉酱 (juk6 zoeng3) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Chinese Mandarin: 肉醬 /肉酱 (ròujiàng) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Czech: paštika — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Danish: pate — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Danish: paté — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Danish: postej — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Dutch: paté — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Esperanto: pasteĉo — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Estonian: pasteet — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Faroese: postei — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Finnish: patee — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • French: pâté — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Georgian: პაშტეტი (ṗašṭeṭi) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • German: Pastete — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • German: Paste — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • German: Streichwurst — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • German: Aufstrich — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Greek: πατέ (paté) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Hebrew: פָּטֶה (paté) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Hungarian: pástétom — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Icelandic: kæfa — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Ido: pasteto — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Irish: pâté — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Italian: pâté — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Japanese: パテ (pate) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Kazakh: паштет (paştet) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Khmer: ប៉ាតេ (paatee) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Korean: 파테 (pate) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Kyrgyz: паштет (paştet) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Latvian: pastēte — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Lithuanian: paštetas — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Macedonian: паште́та (paštéta) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Norman: pâté — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Norwegian Bokmål: paté — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Iranian Persian: پاتِه (pâte) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Polish: pasztet — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Portuguese: patê — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Romanian: pate — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Russian: паште́т (paštét) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Serbo-Croatian: паште́та — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Serbo-Croatian: paštéta — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Slovak: paštéta — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Slovene: pašteta — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Spanish: paté — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Spanish: pasta de carne — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Swedish: paté — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Swedish: pastej — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Tajik: паштет (paštet) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Thai: ปาเต — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Turkish: pate — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Turkmen: paştet — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Ukrainian: паште́т (paštét) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Uzbek: pashtet — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Vietnamese: pa tê — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables
  • Yiddish: פּאַשטעט (pashtet) — finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables