πιστάκη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Of Iranian origin. Compare Northern Kurdish pisteq, Persian پسته (pesta, peste), Middle Persian pstk' (pistag, “pistachio nut”), Old Armenian պիստակ (pistak) (from Iranian).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pis.tá.kɛː/ → /pisˈta.ci/ → /pisˈta.ci/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pis.tá.kɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pisˈta.ke̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pisˈta.ci/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pisˈta.ci/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pisˈta.ci/

Noun

πῐστᾰ́κη • (pistákē) f (genitive πῐστᾰ́κης); first declension

1. pistachio-tree (Pistacia vera)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ πῐστᾰ́κη; τῆς πῐστᾰ́κης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ πῐστᾰ́κη hē pistákē	τὼ πῐστᾰ́κᾱ tṑ pistákā	αἱ πῐστᾰ́και hai pistákai
Genitive	τῆς πῐστᾰ́κης tês pistákēs	τοῖν πῐστᾰ́καιν toîn pistákain	τῶν πῐστᾰκῶν tôn pistakôn
Dative	τῇ πῐστᾰ́κῃ têi pistákēi	τοῖν πῐστᾰ́καιν toîn pistákain	ταῖς πῐστᾰ́καις taîs pistákais
Accusative	τὴν πῐστᾰ́κην tḕn pistákēn	τὼ πῐστᾰ́κᾱ tṑ pistákā	τᾱ̀ς πῐστᾰ́κᾱς tā̀s pistákās
Vocative	πῐστᾰ́κη pistákē	πῐστᾰ́κᾱ pistákā	πῐστᾰ́και pistákai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• πῐστᾰ́κῐον (pistákion)

Further reading

• “πιστάκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πιστάκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN