pastinaca

See also: Pastinaca

Italian

Etymology

From Latin pastinaca (“parsnip, carrot”), from pastinum (“two-pronged fork”); related to pastināre (“to dig up the ground”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.stiˈna.ka/
• Rhymes: -aka
• Hyphenation: pa‧sti‧nà‧ca

Noun

pastinaca f (plural pastinache)

1. parsnip (plant or vegetable)
2. stingray

Related terms

• trigone
• pastinaca comune

Further reading

• pastinaca on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams

• spanciata

Latin

Etymology

From pastinum (“kind of two-pronged dibble”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pas.tiˈnaː.ka/, [päs̠t̪ɪˈnäːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pas.tiˈna.ka/, [päst̪iˈnäːkä]

Noun

pastināca f (genitive pastinācae); first declension

1. parsnip
2. stingray

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pastināca	pastinācae
Genitive	pastinācae	pastinācārum
Dative	pastinācae	pastinācīs
Accusative	pastinācam	pastinācās
Ablative	pastinācā	pastinācīs
Vocative	pastināca	pastinācae

Descendants

• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: pastinaccia
    • ⇒ Corsican: pastricciola
  • Italian: pastinaca
  • Neapolitan: pastenaca
  • Sicilian: vastunaca
  • Sardinian: pastinaca, frustinaca (etc.)
• Old French: pasnaie
  • Middle French: panais
    • French: panais
      • Haitian Creole: pane
  • Bourguignon: patenaille, potenaille, pétenaille, pait'naille
  • Norman: pônais, pânais, paunais, pânnais (Jersey), pânnais, pônais (Guernsey)
  • Walloon: panåjhe, pastenate
  • → Middle English: passenep, pasnepe (influenced by neep (“turnip”))
    • English: parsnepe, parsnep, parsnip
      • → Japanese: パースニップ (pāsunippu)
      • → Maori: pānipi
    • Scots: passeneip, paseneip, parsnip
  • → Cornish: panes
  • → Middle Breton: panesenn
    • Breton: panez
  • → Welsh: pannas
• Old Occitan: pastenago, pastenaga
  • Catalan: pastanaga, pastenaga, bastanaga, bastenaga
  • Occitan: pastenaga, pastanaca, pastanaga, pastanagra, pastanarga
  • → Middle French: pastenaille, pastenade, pastenaie
    • French: pastenade, patenais
    • → German: Pastiney, Pastinei
    • → Ottoman Turkish: پاستنای (pastinay)
  • → Middle French: pastenague
    • French: pastenague
• Venetan: pestenéga
  • → Cimbrian: bostanàja
• Emilian: pistinèga
• → Andalusian Arabic: بِسْنَاج (bisnāj), بِسْتِنَاج (bistināj), بِسْتِنَاجَة (bistināja), بِشْتِْنَاجَة (bištināja), بِشْتِنَاقَة (bištināqa, “parsnip”)
  • → Portuguese: bisnaga, bisnaca, visnaga (obsolete)
  • → Spanish: biznaga
    • → Basque: bisnaga, biznaga
    • → Catalan: bisnaga, biçnaga (obsolete)
    • → Galician: bisnaga, biznaga, bizniega
• → Galician: pastinaca
• → Picard: pasternache
• → Portuguese: pastinaca, pastinaga
• → Walloon: pastinåke
• → Greek: παστινάκη (pastináki)
• → Translingual: Pastinaca
• → Proto-West Germanic: *pastinakā (see there for further descendants)

References

• “pastinaca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pastinaca 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)
• pastinaca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• pastinaga

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pastinaca.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pas.t͡ʃiˈna.kɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pas.t͡ʃiˈna.kɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /paʃ.t͡ʃiˈna.kɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pas.t͡ʃiˈna.ka/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐʃ.tiˈna.kɐ/

• Hyphenation: pas‧ti‧na‧ca

Noun

pastinaca f (plural pastinacas)

1. parsnip (Pastinaca sativa, a plant known for its edible root)

   Synonyms: cherovia, cenoura-brava