pâtisser

French

Etymology

From Old French pasticier (“make pâté, make pastry”), from an unattested noun *pastitz (compare Old Occitan pastis, pastitz, Italian pasticcio), from a Vulgar Latin *pastīcius,[1] from Late Latin pasta (“paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “salted”), from πάσσω (pássō, “sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kuh₁tyé- (whence Latin quatiō), from *(s)kweh₁t- (“shake, jostle”).[2] Morphological doublet of pasticher.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa.ti.se/, /pɑ.ti.se/
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Verb

pâtisser

  1. (intransitive) to make pastry
  2. (transitive, of cakes and pastry) to bake something

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. “pâtisser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
  2. Rix, Helmut, editor (2001) Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs]‎ (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 563-564
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