pistacium

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πιστᾰ́κιον (pistákion). See also πιστάκη (pistákē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pisˈta.ki.um/, [pɪs̠ˈt̪äkiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pisˈta.t͡ʃi.um/, [pisˈt̪äːt͡ʃium]
• 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).

Case	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

Descendants of pistacium

• → Czech: pistácie
• → Danish: pistacie
• → Estonian: pistaatsia
• → German: Pistazie
• → Hungarian: pisztácia
• → Icelandic: pistasía
• → Italian: pistacchio (see there for further descendants)
• → Latvian: pistācija
• → Lower Sorbian: pistacija
• → Norwegian: pistasie
• → Old French: pistace
  • French: pistache (see there for further descendants)
• → Polish: pistacja
• → Portuguese: pistácio, pistácia
• Romansch: pistazia
• → Slovene: pistacija
• → Upper Sorbian: pistacija

Further reading

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