Where does “pate” come from?
pate (English) comes from French pâté, from French pâte, from Middle French paste, from Old French pasté, from Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά, from Ancient Greek παστός, from Ancient Greek πάσσω — to shake.
pate (English): A finely-ground paste of meat, fish or...
Definitions
- A finely-ground paste of meat, fish or...
Ancestry of “pate”, step by step
pate traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via French pâté
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | pâté | paste; pâté |
| 2 | French | pâte | paste; pastry; dough; batter; pastas |
| 3 | Middle French | paste | — |
| 4 | Old French | pasté | pie or a similar baked good |
| 5 | Latin | pasta | paste; nominative/vocative feminine singular of... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | παστά | barley porridge |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | παστός | sprinkled with salt, salted; woman's chamber,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | πάσσω | I sprinkle |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷeh₁t- | to shake |
via Old French patene
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | patene | paten |
| 2 | Medieval Latin | patena | — |
| 3 | Latin | patīna | A broad, shallow dish, a pan, stewpan |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | πατάνη | kind of flat dish |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | pet-ano | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | pete- | to spread, stretch out |
| 7 | Proto-Finnic | ete- | — |
| 8 | Serbo-Croatian | tẹ́ | of you |
| 9 | Proto-Slavic | ta | inflection of *tъ: ## feminine singular ##... |
via Middle English Pate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | Pate | — |
| 2 | English | Patrick | A placename |
| 3 | Middle English | Patrick | — |
| 4 | Latin | Pātricius | patrician, noble |
| 5 | Latin | -icius | -itious |
| 6 | Latin | -icus | belonging to; derived from; of or pertaining to;... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -ικός | of or pertaining to, in the manner of; -ic |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -κός | forms adjectives with the sense of 'of or... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -ḱos | -y, -ic |