# pastiche
## English
### Etymology

Via French pastiche, from Italian pasticcio (“pie, something blended”), from Vulgar Latin *pastīcius, from Late Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”). Doublet of pasticcio.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pæsˈtiːʃ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːʃ

### Noun

pastiche (countable and uncountable, plural pastiches)
* A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist, usually in a positive or neutral way.
    Coordinate term: parody
** 2009, Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism:He argued that the failure of the future was constitutive of a postmodern cultural scene which, as he correctly prophesied, would become dominated by pastiche and revivalism.
* A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
* An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.
    This supposed research paper is a pastiche of passages from unrelated sources.
    The house failed to attract a buyer because the decor was a pastiche of Bohemian and Scandinavian styles.
* (uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.

#### See also

* cento
* collage

### Verb

pastiche (third-person singular simple present pastiches, present participle pastiching, simple past and past participle pastiched)
* To create or compose in a mixture of styles.
** 2008 May 13, Natalie Angier, “A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family”, in New York Times‎:That the genetic code of the platypus proved to be as bizarrely pastiched as its anatomy enhanced the popular appeal of the report, published in the journal Nature.

### Anagrams

* capeshit, hepatics, pistache, scaphite

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pasticcio (“pie, something blended”), from Vulgar Latin *pastīcius, from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”). Doublet of pastis, which was borrowed through Occitan.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pas.tiʃ/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: pastichent, pastiches

### Noun

pastiche m (plural pastiches)
* pastiche

### Verb

pastiche
* inflection of pasticher:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: pastitx
* → English: pastiche

### References

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

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* pasticho

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /pasˈt͡ʃi.ʃi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /pasˈt͡ʃi.ʃi/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /paʃˈt͡ʃi.ʃi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /pasˈt͡ʃi.ʃe/
* (Portugal) IPA: /pɐʃˈti.ʃɨ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /pɐʃˈti.ʃɨ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /pɐʃˈti.t͡ʃɨ/
* Hyphenation: pas‧ti‧che

### Noun

pastiche m (plural pastiches)
* pastiche (work that imitates the work of a previous artist)

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pasˈtit͡ʃe/ [pasˈt̪i.t͡ʃe]
* Rhymes: -itʃe
* Syllabification: pas‧ti‧che

### Noun

pastiche m (plural pastiches)
* pastiche (work that imitates the work of a previous artist)

### Further reading

* “pastiche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10