pastille

Types of fruit-flavoured pastilles (sense 1).

A pastille (sense 3.2) or cough drop containing eucalyptus oil and menthol.

Partly from the following:[1]

• From Late Middle English pastil, pastill (“crushed leek leaves; vegetable pulp”),[2] borrowed from Old French pastel, probably from Latin pastillus, pastillum (“small bread roll; lozenge to freshen breath; medicated lozenge”), possibly from pāstus (“fed, nourished; consumed; having eaten; of an animal: driven to pasture, pastured; having browsed or grazed”) + -illus (diminutive suffix). Pāstus is the perfect passive participle of pāscō (“to feed, nourish; to maintain, support; of an animal: to drive to pasture, pasture; to browse, graze”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect; to shepherd”).
• Borrowed from French pastille (“candy or medicinal lozenge; small fragrant pellet burnt to perfume the air; pellet, pill”), and from its etymon Spanish pastilla (“candy or medicinal lozenge; small fragrant pellet burnt to perfume the air”), from Latin pastillus, pastillum; see above.

Doublet of pastegh, pastel, pastiglia, pastila, and pastilla.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpæst(ɪ)l/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /pæsˈtil/
• Rhymes: -ɪl (GA pronunciation)
• Hyphenation: past‧ille

pastille (plural pastilles)

1. An often round and somewhat flat flavoured candy or sweet.
2. Any small, usually round and somewhat flat, granular piece of material; a tablet.
   • 2003, The Complete Drawing & Painting Course, →ISBN, page 201:

     Watercolors of professional quality come in small pastilles of dry pigment, in pans of semi-moist paint, or in tubes or bottles of liquid watercolor.

   1. (specifically, historical) A small pellet containing aromatic substances, burned to diffuse a fragrance or to disinfect or fumigate.
3. (pharmacy)
   1. (historical) A medicinal pill, originally made of compressed herbs.
   2. A candy- or sweet-like lozenge, which, when sucked, releases substances that soothe a sore throat, and sometimes vapours to help unblock the nose or sinuses.

      Synonyms: cough drop, troche

• pastil (obsolete)

• pastillation
• pastillator
• pastilled (adjective)

See pastel.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpæstl̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pæsˈtɛl/
• Rhymes: -æstəl, -ɛl
• Hyphenation: past‧ille

pastille (plural pastilles)

1. (obsolete, art) Nonstandard spelling of pastel (“crayon made from a type of dried paste; drawing made using such crayons”).
   • 1867, Indiana. State Board of Agriculture, Annual Report of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture:

     Best specimen of fancy painting, pastille, Emily C. Dills, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

   • 1873, Annual Report of the State Board of Agriculture of the State of Missouri:

     Pastille, Crayon or Chalk on Photograph.

   • 1913, University of Kansas, Bulletin - Volume 14, Issue 12 , page 35:

     Painting with water color, oil, or pastille, from still life.

• pastille on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “pastille”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• palliest, stipella

From Spanish pastilla (“small roll of fragrant dough”), from Latin pastellum (“dough, paste”), a diminutive form of pasta (“dough, paste”). Doublet of pastel.

• IPA^(key): /pas.tij/

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pastille f (plural pastilles)

1. (archaic) small roll of dough containing fragrant ingredients baked in order to perfume the air
2. pastille, lozenge, drop (medicinal or candy)

   J’ai acheté des pastilles contre la toux.

   I bought some cough drops.

3. lozenge-shaped figure in a design
4. the conductive part of a printed circuit board that components are fixed to

• pastillage
• pastillette
• pastilleur
• pastilleux
• pastille de gomme

• pâte
• pastel

• → Romanian: pastilă
• → Turkish: pastil

• “pastille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.