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 *pasticium,[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]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɑ.ti.se/

Verb

pâtisser

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

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. pâtisser” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
  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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