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Where does “rattlepate” come from?

rattlepate (English) comes from English pâté, 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 — to shake.

rattlepate (English): A rattlehead

Definitions

  1. A rattlehead

Ancestry of “rattlepate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpâtéA finely-ground paste of meat, fish or...
2Frenchpâtépaste; pâté
3Frenchpâtepaste; pastry; dough; batter; pastas
4Middle Frenchpaste—
5Old Frenchpastépie or a similar baked good
6Latinpastapaste; nominative/vocative feminine singular of...
7Ancient Greekπαστάbarley porridge
8Ancient Greekπαστόςsprinkled with salt, salted; woman's chamber,...
9Ancient GreekπάσσωI sprinkle
10Proto-Indo-Europeankʷeh₁t-to shake
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