pisum

See also: Pisum

Latin

pisum n (genitive pisī); second declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Italo-Dalmatian:
- Italian: peso (Tuscan)
- Venetan: bixo
Gallo-Italic:
- Ligurian: poîscio, poèixo, pôxo
- Piedmontese: pòis
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: pês
- Occitan: pese
- Old French: pois
  - French: pois
  - Norman: pais (Jersey), peis (Guernsey)
⇒ Latin: pisum sapidum (“tasty pea”)
- Ibero-Romance:
  - Mozarabic: biššáuṭ
    - → Aragonese: bisalto, bisalte
      - → Spanish: guisante (influenced by guisar and Aragonese guixa)
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pisellum
- Italo-Romance:
  - Italian: pisello
  - Neapolitan: pesiello, pesillo
  - Sicilian: piseddu, puseddu
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pisulum
- Gallo-Romance:
  - Catalan: pèsol
    - → Spanish: pésol
  - Occitan: pesèu
Borrowings:
- → Irish: pis
- → Old English: pise
  - Middle English: pese
    - English: pease, pea
- → Proto-Brythonic: *pɨs
  - Cornish: pys
  - Welsh: pys

“pisum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
"pisum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
pisum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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