pistacium
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek πιστᾰ́κιον (pistắkion). See also πιστάκη (pistákē).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɪsˈta.ki.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [pisˈt̪aː.t͡ʃi.um]
- Note: the single poetic attestation in Late Latin displays a long /ā/.
Noun
pistacium n (genitive pistaciī or pistacī); second declension
- A pistachio nut
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pistacium | pistacia |
| genitive | pistaciī pistacī1 |
pistaciōrum |
| dative | pistaciō | pistaciīs |
| accusative | pistacium | pistacia |
| ablative | pistaciō | pistaciīs |
| vocative | pistacium | pistacia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
- pistacia (“pistachio tree”)
Descendants
Descendants
- → Czech: pistácie
- → Danish: pistacie
- → Estonian: pistaatsia
- → German: Pistazie
- → Hungarian: pisztácia
- → Icelandic: pistasía
- → Italian: pistacchio (see there for further descendants)
- → Latvian: pistācija
- → Lower Sorbian: pistacija
- → Norwegian: pistasie
- → Old French: pistace
- French: pistache (see there for further descendants)
- → Polish: pistacja
- → Portuguese: pistácio, pistácia
- Romansch: pistazia
- → Slovene: pistacija
- → Upper Sorbian: pistacija
Further reading
- “pistacium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press