pistole
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French pistole, of uncertain origin. Probably ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Czech píšťala (“whistle”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Slavic *piščalь, from *piskati, *piščati (“to squeak, whistle”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Balto-Slavic *pīṣk-.
Alternatively, perhaps from Pistoia (a city in Tuscany).
Pronunciation
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Noun
pistole (plural pistoles)
- (historical) A Spanish gold double-escudo coin of the mid-sixteenth century, or any of various gold coins derived from or based on this. [from 16th c.]
- 1793, Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin[1], §21:
- Ralph and I were inseparable Companions. We took Lodgings together in Little Britain at 3/6 per Week, as much as we could then afford. He found some Relations, but they were poor & unable to assist him. He now let me know his Intentions of remaining in London, and that he never meant to return to Philadelphia. He had brought no Money with him, the whole he could muster having been expended in paying his Passage. I had 15 Pistoles: So he borrowed occasionally of me, to subsist while he was looking out for Business. [...]
Anagrams
Czech
Etymology
Ultimately from píšťala (“whistle”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Slavic *piščalь, from *piskati, *piščati (“to squeak, whistle”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Balto-Slavic *pīṣk-.
Pronunciation
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Noun
pistole f
Declension
Further reading
French
Etymology
Origin uncertain. Probably ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Czech píšťala (“whistle”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Slavic *piščalь, from *piskati, *piščati (“to squeak, whistle”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Balto-Slavic *pīšk-.
Pronunciation
Noun
pistole f (plural pistoles)
- (historical) pistole (coin)
Further reading
- “pistole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Noun
pistole f
Anagrams
Middle French
Etymology
First attested 1544[1], of uncertain origin. Probably ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Czech píšťala (“whistle”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Slavic *piščalь, from *piskati, *piščati (“to squeak, whistle”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Balto-Slavic *pīṣk-.
Noun
pistole f (plural pistoles)
- pistol (small gun)
References
- ^ Etymology and history of “pistole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (pistole)
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