# pastille
## English
### Etymology 1

Partly from the following:
* From Late Middle English pastil, pastill (“crushed leek leaves; vegetable pulp”), 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.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpæst(ɪ)l/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /pæsˈtil/
* Rhymes: -ɪl (GA pronunciation)
* Hyphenation: past‧ille

#### Noun

pastille (plural pastilles)
* An often round and somewhat flat flavoured candy or sweet.
* 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.
** (specifically, historical) A small pellet containing aromatic substances, burned to diffuse a fragrance or to disinfect or fumigate.
*** 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray:At the end he felt faint and sick, and having lit some Algerian pastilles in a pierced copper brazier, he bathed his hands and forehead with a cool musk-scented vinegar.
* (pharmacy)
** (historical) A medicinal pill, originally made of compressed herbs.
** 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

##### Alternative forms

* pastil (obsolete)

##### Derived terms

* pastillation
* pastillator
* pastilled (adjective)

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

See pastel.

#### Pronunciation

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

#### Noun

pastille (plural pastilles)
* (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.

### References

* ↑ Compare “pastille, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2021; “pastille, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* ↑ “pastil, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* palliest, stipella

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pas.tij/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

pastille f (plural pastilles)
* (archaic) small roll of dough containing fragrant ingredients baked in order to perfume the air
* pastille, lozenge, drop (medicinal or candy)
    J’ai acheté des pastilles contre la toux.I bought some cough drops.
* lozenge-shaped figure in a design
* the conductive part of a printed circuit board that components are fixed to

#### Derived terms

* pastillage
* pastillette
* pastilleur
* pastilleux
* pastille de gomme

#### Related terms

* pâte
* pastel

#### Descendants

* → Romanian: pastilă
* → Turkish: pastil

### Further reading

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