pastille

Meaning

Noun

• An often round and somewhat flat flavoured candy or sweet.
• Any small, usually round and somewhat flat, granular piece of material; a tablet.

Origin

• Partly from the following:
• . Pāstus is the perfect passive participle of pāscō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-.
• Borrowed from French pastille, and from its etymon Spanish pastilla, from Latin pastillus, pastillum; see above.
• pastegh.
• See pastel.