pastinaca

See also: Pastinaca

Italian

Etymology

From Latin pastinaca (“parsnip, carrot”), from pastinum (“two-pronged fork”); related to pastinare (“to dig up the ground”).

Noun

pastinaca f (plural pastinache)

1. parsnip (plant or vegetable)
2. stingray

Related terms

• trigone
• pastinaca comune

Anagrams

• spanciata

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Latin

Etymology

From pastinum (“kind of two-pronged dibble”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pas.tiˈnaː.ka/, [päs̠t̪ɪˈnäːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pas.tiˈna.ka/, [päst̪iˈnäːkä]

Noun

pastināca f (genitive pastinācae); first declension

1. parsnip
2. stingray

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pastināca	pastinācae
Genitive	pastinācae	pastinācārum
Dative	pastinācae	pastinācīs
Accusative	pastinācam	pastinācās
Ablative	pastinācā	pastinācīs
Vocative	pastināca	pastinācae

Descendants

• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: pastinaccia
    • ⇒ Corsican: pastricciola
  • Italian: pastinaca
  • Sicilian: vastunaca
• Old French: pasnaie
  • French: panais
    • Haitian Creole: pane
  • Norman: pônais, pânais, paunais; pânnais (Jersey), pânnais
  • Walloon: panåjhe
  • → Middle English: passenep, pasnepe (influenced by neep (“turnip”))
    • English: parsnepe, parsnep, parsnip
      • → Japanese: パースニップ (pāsunippu)
      • → Maori: pānipi
    • Scots: passeneip, paseneip, parsnip
• Old Occitan: pastenago, pastenaga
  • Catalan: pastanaga, pastenaga, bastanaga, bastenaga
  • Occitan: pastenaga, pastanaca, pastanaga, pastanagra, pastanarga
  • → French: pastenague
• Venetian: pestenéga
  • → Cimbrian: bostanaja
• → Celtic borrowings
  • Cornish: panes
  • Middle Breton: panesenn
    • Breton: panez
  • Welsh: pannas
• → Germanic borrowings
  • Danish: pastinak
  • Icelandic: pastínakka
  • Middle Dutch: pastenake
    • Dutch: pastinaak
    • Limburgish: pastinaak
  • Norwegian: pastinakk
  • Old High German: pestinac
    • Middle High German: pasternack, pasternacke
      • German: Pastinak, Pastinake, Pasternake
        • → Slavic borrowings
          • Belarusian: пастарнак (pastarnak)
          • Bulgarian: пащърна̀к (paštǎrnàk), пастърна́к (pastǎrnák), пастърня́к (pastǎrnják), пастерна́к (pasternák), пастерня́к (pasternják), пастарна́к (pastarnák), пастина́к (pastinák), пащерна́к (pašternák), пашкана́т (paškanát), пашкарна́з (paškarnáz)
            • → Romanian: păstârnac
          • Czech: pastinák
          • Kashubian: pasternôk
          • Macedonian: пашканат (paškanat)
          • Polish: pasternak
          • Russian: пастерна́к (pasternák), пастина́ка (pastináka)
          • Serbo-Croatian:

            Cyrillic script: пашка̀на̄т, па̀стрња̄к, па̀штрња̄к, па̀стрна̄к, па̀штрна̄к, паштинак, пастинак

            Latin script: paškànāt, pàstrnjāk, pàštrnjāk, pàstrnāk, pàštrnāk, paštinak, pastinak

          • Slovene: pastinak
          • Ukrainian: пастерна́к (pasternák)
      • Yiddish: פּאַסטערנאַק (pasternak)
  • Middle Low German: pasternake, palsternake
    • → Swedish: palsternacka
      • → Finnish: palsternakka
• → Romance borrowings
  • Galician: pastinaca
  • Picard: pasternache
  • Portuguese: pastinaca, pastinaga
  • Walloon: pastinåke
• → other borrowings
  • Estonian: pastinaak
  • Greek: παστινάκη (pastináki)
  • Hungarian: paszternák, pasztinák
  • Karelian: pasternakku
  • Lithuanian: pastarnokas
  • Samogitian: pastarnuoks
  • Translingual: Pastinaca, Pastinaca

References

• “pastinaca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pastinaca 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)
• pastinaca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• pastinaga

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pastinaca.

Noun

pastinaca f (plural pastinacas)

1. parsnip (Pastinaca sativa, a plant known for its edible root)

Synonyms

• cherovia, cenoura-brava