pistache
English edit
Noun edit
pistache (plural pistaches)
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From French pistache, from Latin pistacium, from Ancient Greek πιστάκιον (pistákion).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pistache c (plural pistaches, diminutive pistachetje n) m or f
- The pistachio tree (Pistacia vera)
- Its greenish, edible nut-like fruit; also sugared etc. as candy
- A sweet resembling the above candy
- The fruit's taste, also as a flavor, notably of ice cream
- Twee bollen vanille en één pistache, graag
- Two scoops vanilla and one pistaccio, please
Synonyms edit
- (tree and fruit) pimpernoot, groene amandel
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Venetian pistacio, from Latin pistacium, from Ancient Greek πιστάκιον (pistákion).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pistache f (plural pistaches)
Derived terms edit
- pistachier m (“Pistacia vera (tree)”)
Descendants edit
- → Dutch: pistache
- → Finnish: pistaasi
- → Irish: piostáis
- → Luxembourgish: Pistasch
- → Norwegian Bokmål: pistasj
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: pistasj
- → Portuguese: pistache
- → Spanish: pistacho, pistache
- → Tagalog: pistatso
- → Swedish: pistasch
Further reading edit
- “pistache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From French pistache, from Latin pistacium, from Ancient Greek πιστάκιον (pistákion).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pistache m (plural pistaches)
- pistachio (Pistacia vera, a deciduous tree)
- pistachio (the nut-like fruit of the pistachio tree)
Spanish edit
Noun edit
pistache m (plural pistaches)
- Alternative form of pistacho
Further reading edit
- “pistache”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014