pistor
Latin
Etymology
From pīnsō (“pound, beat”) + -tor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpiːs.tor/, [ˈpiːs̠t̪ɔr] or IPA(key): /ˈpis.tor/, [ˈpɪs̠t̪ɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpis.tor/, [ˈpist̪or]
- Note: the original short vowel was apparently prone to analogical substitution from pīnsō.
Noun
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
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
- pī̆strīx
- pī̆strīnum
Descendants
- Old French: pestor, pistor, pestur, pestour, pesteur
- Italian: pistore
- → Old High German:
- Alemannic German: Pfister, Pfischter
- German: Pfister
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: фиштар
- Latin: fištar
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pistrīre *pistriō
- Old Francoprovençal: pestrir
- Franco-Provençal: pêtrir
- Old French: pestrir
- French: pétrir
- Norman: pêtri
- Walloon: prusti
- Old Francoprovençal: pestrir
References
- “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 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
Etymology
From Latin pistor (“miller; baker”).
Noun
forner m (plural forneri)
- baker
- Synonym: forner
Derived terms
- pistora
- pistorìa
Further reading
- Boerio, Giuseppe (1867), “pistor”, in Dizionario del dialetto veneziano, 3rd edition, Venice: G. Cecchini, page 282