• IPA^(key): /ˈpistus/
• Rhymes: -istus
• Syllabification: pis‧tus

pistus

1. conditional of pisti

• pīnsus, pīnsitus

Perfect passive participle of pīnsō (“to pound, beat”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpiːs.tʊs], [ˈpɪs.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpis.tus]
• Note: the original short vowel was apparently prone to analogical substitution from the other stems.

pī̆stus (feminine pī̆sta, neuter pī̆stum); first/second-declension participle

1. pounded, crushed, beaten

First/second-declension adjective.

• → Andalusian Arabic: بِشْط (pi‍šṭ, bišṭ), بِشْطُه (bišṭuh, pišṭuh)
  • → Spanish: alpiste
    • → French: alpiste
    • → Galician: alpiste
    • → Portuguese: alpiste, alpista (Portugal)
    • → Tagalog: alpiste
• Italian: pesto
• Neapolitan: pisto
  • ⇒ Spanish: pisto
• Sicilian: pistu

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