pisum

See also: Pisum

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɪ.sũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpiː.s̬um]

Noun

pisum n (genitive pisī); second declension

1. pea, pease

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	pisum	pisa
genitive	pisī	pisōrum
dative	pisō	pisīs
accusative	pisum	pisa
ablative	pisō	pisīs
vocative	pisum	pisa

Descendants

• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Italian: peso (Tuscan)
  • Venetan: bixo
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Ligurian: poîscio, poèixo, pôxo
  • Piedmontese: pòis
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: pês
  • Occitan: pese
  • Old French: pois
    • French: pois
    • Norman: pais (Jersey), peis (Guernsey)
• ⇒ Latin: pisum sapidum (“tasty pea”)
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Mozarabic: biššáuṭ
      • → Aragonese: bisalto, bisalte
        • → Spanish: guisante (influenced by guisar and Aragonese guixa)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pisellum
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: pisello
    • Neapolitan: pesiello, pesillo
    • Sicilian: piseddu, puseddu
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pisulum
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: pèsol
      • → Spanish: pésol
    • Occitan: pesèu
• Borrowings:
  • → Irish: pis
  • → Old English: pise (see there for further descendants)
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *pɨs
    • Cornish: pys
    • Welsh: pys

References

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

Old English

Noun

pisum

1. dative plural of pise