pistus
Esperanto
[edit]Verb
[edit]pistus
- conditional of pisti
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perfect passive participle of pīnsō (“to pound, beat”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpiːs.tus/, [ˈpiːs̠t̪ʊs̠] or IPA(key): /ˈpis.tus/, [ˈpɪs̠t̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpis.tus/, [ˈpist̪us]
- Note: the original short vowel was apparently prone to analogical substitution from the other stems.
Participle
[edit]pī̆stus (feminine pī̆sta, neuter pī̆stum); first/second-declension participle
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | pī̆stus | pī̆sta | pī̆stum | pī̆stī | pī̆stae | pī̆sta | |
| genitive | pī̆stī | pī̆stae | pī̆stī | pī̆stōrum | pī̆stārum | pī̆stōrum | |
| dative | pī̆stō | pī̆stae | pī̆stō | pī̆stīs | |||
| accusative | pī̆stum | pī̆stam | pī̆stum | pī̆stōs | pī̆stās | pī̆sta | |
| ablative | pī̆stō | pī̆stā | pī̆stō | pī̆stīs | |||
| vocative | pī̆ste | pī̆sta | pī̆stum | pī̆stī | pī̆stae | pī̆sta | |
Descendants
[edit]- → Andalusian Arabic: بِشْط (pišṭ, bišṭ), بِشْطُه (bišṭuh, pišṭuh)
- Italian: pesto
- Sicilian: pistu
- Spanish: pisto
Further reading
[edit]- “pistus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pistus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.