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

  1. 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

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchpâtépaste; pâté
2Frenchpâtepaste; pastry; dough; batter; pastas
3Middle Frenchpaste
4Old Frenchpastépie or a similar baked good
5Latinpastapaste; nominative/vocative feminine singular of...
6Ancient Greekπαστάbarley porridge
7Ancient Greekπαστόςsprinkled with salt, salted; woman's chamber,...
8Ancient GreekπάσσωI sprinkle
9Proto-Indo-Europeankʷeh₁t-to shake

via Old French patene

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchpatenepaten
2Medieval Latinpatena
3LatinpatīnaA broad, shallow dish, a pan, stewpan
4Ancient Greekπατάνηkind of flat dish
5Proto-Indo-Europeanpet-ano
6Proto-Indo-Europeanpete-to spread, stretch out
7Proto-Finnicete-
8Serbo-Croatiantẹ́of you
9Proto-Slavictainflection of *tъ: ## feminine singular ##...

via Middle English Pate

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishPate
2EnglishPatrickA placename
3Middle EnglishPatrick
4LatinPātriciuspatrician, noble
5Latin-icius-itious
6Latin-icusbelonging to; derived from; of or pertaining to;...
7Ancient Greek-ικόςof or pertaining to, in the manner of; -ic
8Ancient Greek-κόςforms adjectives with the sense of 'of or...
9Proto-Indo-European-ḱos-y, -ic

Words derived from “pate

Every word from Proto-Indo-European kʷeh₁t-