pâtisser

to make pastry; to bake something

Inherited from Old French pasticier (“make pâté, make pastry”), from an unattested noun *pastitz (compare Old Occitan pastis, pastitz, Italian pasticcio), from a Vulgar Latin *pastīcius, from Late Latin pasta (“paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “salted”), from πάσσω (pássō, “sprinkle”). Morphological doublet of pasticher.