pistor
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From pīnsō (“pound, beat”) + -tor.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpiːs.tor/, [ˈpiːs̠t̪ɔr] or IPA(key): /ˈpis.tor/, [ˈpɪs̠t̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpis.tor/, [ˈpist̪or]
- Note: the original short vowel was apparently prone to analogical substitution from pīnsō.
Noun edit
pī̆stor m (genitive pī̆stōris); third declension
- (originally) pounder of far/spelt (a slave who grinds it into flour)
- (from ~2c. BC, when bread baking becomes a trade) miller and/or baker
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pī̆stor | pī̆stōrēs |
Genitive | pī̆stōris | pī̆stōrum |
Dative | pī̆stōrī | pī̆stōribus |
Accusative | pī̆stōrem | pī̆stōrēs |
Ablative | pī̆stōre | pī̆stōribus |
Vocative | pī̆stor | pī̆stōrēs |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Old French: pestor, pistor, pestur, pestour, pesteur
- Italian: pistore
- → Old High German:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pistrīre *pistriō
References edit
- “pistor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pistor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pistor 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)
- pistor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “pistor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “pistor”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “pistor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Venetian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin pistor (“miller; baker”).
Noun edit
forner m (plural forneri)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- Boerio, Giuseppe (1867) “pistor”, in Dizionario del dialetto veneziano, 3rd edition, Venice: G. Cecchini, page 282