pesto

See also: pestò and Pesto

English

Etymology

1937, from Italian pesto, from Latin pistus (“crushed, pounded”), from Latin pīnsō (“to pound, beat, crush”). Cognate to pestle.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛstoʊ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛstəʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɛstəʊ

Noun

pesto (usually uncountable, plural pestos)

1. A sauce, especially for pasta, originating from the Genoa region in Italy, made from basil, garlic, pine nuts, olive oil and cheese (usually pecorino)

Coordinate terms

• persillade
• pistou

Translations

an Italian sauce especially for pasta

• Arabic: بِيسْتُو‎ (bīstū)
• Belarusian: пе́ста m (pjésta)
• Bulgarian: пе́сто m (pésto)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 香蒜沙司 (xiāngsuàn shāsī), 香蒜醬 (zh), 香蒜酱 (zh) (xiāngsuànjiàng)

• Danish: pesto (da) c
• Dutch: pesto (nl) m
• Finnish: pesto (fi), pestokastike
• French: pesto (fr) m
• German: Pesto (de) n
• Greek: πέστο (el) n (pésto)
• Hebrew: פֶּסְטוֹ‎ (he) m (pɛsṭō)
• Icelandic: pestó m
• Italian: pesto (it) m

• Japanese: ペスト・ジェノヴェーゼ (pesuto jenovēze), ペスト (ja) (pesuto)
• Korean: 페스토 (peseuto)
• Ligurian: pesto m
• Neapolitan: pisto m
• Persian: پستو‎ (fa)
• Polish: pesto (pl) n
• Russian: пе́сто (ru) m (pésto)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пе̏сто m

  Roman: pȅsto (sh) m

• Spanish: pesto (es) m
• Swedish: pesto (sv) c
• Ukrainian: пе́сто m (pésto)
• Welsh: pesto m

Anagrams

• ETOPS, Poets, Potes, T pose, T-pose, Topes, e-stop, estop, poets, poset, potes, septo-, stoep, stope, topes

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Catalan

Noun

pesto m (plural pestos)

1. pesto

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Esperanto

Noun

pesto (accusative singular peston, plural pestoj, accusative plural pestojn)

1. pestilence

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Finnish

Noun

pesto

1. pesto

Declension

Inflection of pesto (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative		pesto	pestot
genitive		peston	pestojen
partitive		pestoa	pestoja
illative		pestoon	pestoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		pesto	pestot
accusative	nom.	pesto	pestot
	gen.	peston
genitive		peston	pestojen
partitive		pestoa	pestoja
inessive		pestossa	pestoissa
elative		pestosta	pestoista
illative		pestoon	pestoihin
adessive		pestolla	pestoilla
ablative		pestolta	pestoilta
allative		pestolle	pestoille
essive		pestona	pestoina
translative		pestoksi	pestoiksi
instructive		—	pestoin
abessive		pestotta	pestoitta
comitative		—	pestoineen

Possessive forms of pesto (type valo)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	pestoni	pestomme
2nd person	pestosi	pestonne
3rd person	pestonsa

Compounds

• pestokastike

Anagrams

• pesot, petos, sepot, sopet

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpes.to/, [ˈpes̪t̪o]
• Hyphenation: pé‧sto

Etymology 1

From Latin pistus (“crushed, pounded”), from Latin pīnsō (“to pound, beat, crush”), whose frequentative also gave Italian pestare (“to pound”).

Adjective

pesto (feminine singular pesta, masculine plural pesti, feminine plural peste)

1. crushed, ground, beaten
2. livid, bluish, black

   occhio pesto ― black eye

3. pitch-dark, pitch-black

   buio pesto ― pitch darkness

Related terms

• cartapesta
• pestare

Noun

pesto m (plural pesti)

1. (cooking) pesto

Related terms

• pesto alla genovese
• pesto alla trapanese

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

pesto

1. first-person singular present indicative of pestare

Anagrams

• poste

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Polish

Etymology

From Italian pesto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.stɔ/

Noun

pesto n (indeclinable)

1. pesto

Further reading

• pesto in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pesto in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpesto/, [ˈpes.t̪o]

Noun

pesto m (plural pestos)

1. pesto

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Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English pesto, from Italian pesto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛsdɔ/, [ˈpʰɛstɔ]

Noun

pesto m (uncountable)

1. pesto

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pesto	besto	mhesto	phesto
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.