pistacium

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πιστάκῐον (pistákĭon). See also πιστάκη (pistákē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɪsˈta.ki.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pisˈtaː.t͡ʃi.um]
• Note: the single poetic attestation in Late Latin displays a long /ā/.

Noun

pistacium n (genitive pistaciī or pistacī); second declension

1. A pistachio nut

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	pistacium	pistacia
genitive	pistaciī pistacī1	pistaciōrum
dative	pistaciō	pistaciīs
accusative	pistacium	pistacia
ablative	pistaciō	pistaciīs
vocative	pistacium	pistacia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• pistacia (“pistachio tree”)

Descendants

• Romansh: pistazia
• → Czech: pistácie
• → Danish: pistacie
• → Estonian: pistaatsia
• → German: Pistazie
• → Hungarian: pisztácia
• → Icelandic: pistasía
• → Italian: pistacchio
  • → Catalan: pistatxo
  • → English: pistachio, pistacchio (rare)
    • → Japanese: ピスタチオ (pisutachio)
    • → Korean: 피스타치오 (piseutachio)
    • → Malay: pistacio, pistasio
    • → Thai: พิสตาชีโอ (pís-dtaa-chí-ôo)
    • → Welsh: pistasio
  • → Esperanto: pistako
• → Latvian: pistācija
• → Lower Sorbian: pistacija
• → Norwegian: pistasie
• → Old French: pistace
  • Middle French: pistace
    • French: pistache
      • → Dutch: pistache
      • → Finnish: pistaasi
      • → Irish: piostáis
      • → Luxembourgish: Pistasch
      • → Norwegian Bokmål: pistasj
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: pistasj
      • → Portuguese: pistache
      • → Spanish: pistacho, pistache
        • → Tagalog: pistatso
      • → Swedish: pistasch
• → Polish: pistacja
• → Portuguese: pistácio, pistácia
• → Slovene: pistacija
• → Upper Sorbian: pistacija

Further reading

• “pistacium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press