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(key): /pæˈstiːʃ/ 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 A musical medley, typically quoting other works. An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge. (uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form. ==== Translations ==== ==== 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. === 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(key): /pas.tiʃ/ 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 === Hyphenation: pas‧ti‧che === Noun === pastiche m (plural pastiches) pastiche (work that imitates the work of a previous artist) === Further reading === “pastiche”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “pastiche”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /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 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025