pistillum

pistillum (plural pistilla)

1. (botany, obsolete) A pistil.

From pistō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pisˈtil.lum/, [pɪs̠ˈt̪ɪlːʲʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pisˈtil.lum/, [pisˈt̪ilːum]

pistillum n (genitive pistillī); second declension

1. A pestle.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• Italian: pestello
• Old French: pestel
  • → Middle English: pestel, pestell, pistel, pestelle, pestylle, pestill, pestyl
    • English: pestle
  • Middle French: pestel
• Old Occitan: pestel
• → French: pistil
  • → English: pistil
• → Spanish: pistilo

• “pistillum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pistillum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “pistillum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin