pistor

From pīnsō (“pound, beat”) +‎ -tor.

pistor m (genitive pistōris); third declension

1. baker
2. miller (person who grinds corn) [only found with this meaning in Plautus]

Third-declension noun.

• pistrīnum

• Old French: pestor, pistor, pestur, pestour, pesteur
• Italian: pistore
• → Old High German:
  • Alemannic German: Pfister, Pfischter
  • German: Pfister
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: фиштар

      Latin script: fištar

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pistrīre *pistriō
  • Old French:
    • French: pétrir
    • Norman: pêtri
    • Walloon: prusti

• “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