pastel

adjectivecommon noun

Syllable Decomposition

pastel

from Occitan pastèl (woad) and, further back, from Latin pasta ('paste') because this plant was reduced to a paste before being used for dyeing.

Definitions

plantesagriculture

Synonym

isatis

Plural

pastels

Translations

  • englishenglish:pastel

See also

pastelier (cn.) pasteller (v.) pastel (adj.) pastelliser (v.) pastellier (cn.) pastellier (adj.) pastelliste (cn.)