past- root words — words with the past- root

The root past- comes from Greek pasta, meaning paste, dough. 14 words in Dendril are built from it, including paste, pasta, pastas, pasted, pastel, pastels, pastes, pastiche, pasting, pastries, pastry, pasty. Dendril shows them on a free interactive word map — no signup, no ads.

Words that use the past- root

Explore words with past- — words containing the past- root and sharing its sense of "paste, dough". Examples include paste, pasta, pastas, pasted, pastel, pastels, pastes, pastiche, pasting, pastries, pastry, pasty. Click any word to see its own roots, definition, and related words.

The past- root means paste, dough, from Greek pasta. Recognizing it helps you decode and remember the many English words built on this root.