Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape. · A pastry with various fillings and spices baked inside a flaky shell, often tinted golden yellow with an egg yolk mixture or turmeric. · A foolish or stupid person.
From earlier meaning "small pie" from pattipan (“something baked in a small pan”), from French pâté (“liver paste, pâté”), from pâte (“pastry, dough, paste, batter”) + -é. Doublet of pastie /pasty (“meat pie”), pate (“cheese portion”), and pâté (“finely-ground paste”) and related to pasta and paste.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Derivation mentionpâtéfr · liver paste, pâté
- Doublet mentionpastie//pastyen · meat pie
- Doublet mentionpateen · cheese portion
- Doublet mentionpâtéen · finely-ground paste
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
{
"templates": [
{
"name": "der",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fr",
"3": "pâté",
"t": "liver paste, pâté"
},
"expansion": "French pâté (“liver paste, pâté”)"
},
{
"name": "doublet",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "pastie//pasty",
"3": "pate",
"4": "pâté",
"t1": "meat pie",
"t2": "cheese portion",
"t3": "finely-ground paste"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of pastie /pasty (“meat pie”), pate (“cheese portion”), and pâté (“finely-ground paste”)"
}
],
"links": [
[
"pattipan",
"pattipan#English"
],
[
"pâté",
"pâté#French"
],
[
"pâte",
"pâte#French"
],
[
"-é",
"-é#French"
],
[
"pastie",
"pastie#English"
],
[
"pasty",
"pasty#English"
],
[
"pate",
"pate#English"
],
[
"pâté",
"pâté#English"
],
[
"pasta",
"pasta#English"
],
[
"paste",
"paste#English"
]
],
"references": [],
"descendants": [],
"lexical": [
{
"pos": "noun",
"glosses": [
"A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape.",
"A pastry with various fillings and spices baked inside a flaky shell, often tinted golden yellow with an egg yolk mixture or turmeric.",
"A foolish or stupid person."
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"New-Zealand",
"US",
"Jamaica",
"England"
],
"recordId": "359f113cfee6c0b331999ffa8077110d76ef79974d401a56fed12dd4bec47cf7",
"rawRecordSha256": "6102e1ec4486ea82a52a626a71716d3239c82a8316ed9ac9deb5c51898acea6d",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 565656
}
],
"omittedAuxiliaryFields": {
"templates": 0,
"links": 0,
"references": 0,
"descendants": 0,
"lexicalRecords": 0,
"lexicalSenses": 0,
"glosses": 0
}
}