pistolet
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French pistolet. Ultimately from Czech píšťala (“whistle”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pistolet (plural pistolets)
- A small pistol.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of John Donne to this entry?)
- 1623 (first performance), John Fletcher; William Rowley, “The Maid in the Mill”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- The Pistolet is his own
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pistolet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
AnagramsEdit
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: pis‧to‧let
NounEdit
pistolet m (plural pistolets, diminutive pistoletje n)
- (Belgium) a type of small round bread bun
- (Netherlands) a bread bun shaped like a short baguette
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From pistole + -et. Ultimately from Czech píšťala (“whistle”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pistolet m (plural pistolets)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “pistolet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French pistolet, from Czech píšťala (“whistle”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pistolet m inan
DeclensionEdit
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pistolet | pistolety |
| genitive | pistoletu | pistoletów |
| dative | pistoletowi | pistoletom |
| accusative | pistolet | pistolety |
| instrumental | pistoletem | pistoletami |
| locative | pistolecie | pistoletach |
| vocative | pistolecie | pistolety |
Further readingEdit
- pistolet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- pistolet in Polish dictionaries at PWN
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
pistolet n (plural pistolete)
DeclensionEdit
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) pistolet | pistoletul | (niște) pistolete | pistoletele |
| genitive/dative | (unui) pistolet | pistoletului | (unor) pistolete | pistoletelor |
| vocative | pistoletule | pistoletelor | ||
WalloonEdit
EtymologyEdit
Ultimately from Czech píšťala (“whistle”).
NounEdit
pistolet m