Noun: pistle
| Singular | pistle |
| Plural | pistles |
Sample Sentences
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when they were departed / they cam to Antioche and gaddred the multitude togedder and delivered the piſtle. [1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts xv:[30], folio clxxvij, verso:]
Nouns inflected like pistle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. The noun is derived from Middle English pistel, pistle (“letter; epistle”) [and other forms], from Old English pistol (“letter, epistle”), an aphetic form of epistol, epistola, from Latin epistola (“letter, epistle; literary work in letter form”): see further at epistle.
2. The verb is derived from the noun.
3. Cognates
4. Scots pistil, pistle See: Middle English Nouns '
pistel', Old English Nouns '
pistol', Latin Nouns '
epistola'.