Noun: pistillum
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter
Declension: Second
Nominative
| Singular | pistillum |
| Plural | pistilla |
Genitive
| Singular | pistillī |
| Plural | pistillōrum |
Dative
| Singular | pistillō |
| Plural | pistillīs |
Accusative
| Singular | pistillum |
| Plural | pistilla |
Ablative
| Singular | pistillō |
| Plural | pistillīs |
Vocative
| Singular | pistillum |
| Plural | pistilla |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like pistillum
palmētum,
miliardum,
rēctangulum,
bactērium,
frūctum,
melimēlum,
scītum,
scūtum,
lanthanum,
sertum,
sacrum,
pentaptōtum,
dēcrēmentum,
sorbum,
fundibulum,
alphabētum,
siglum,
signum,
flābrum,
nūtrīmentum, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
A diminutive formation from the root of pīnsō and pistō. Perhaps from *pistlelo-, diminutive of *pistlo- (the ancestor of pīlum (“pounder, pestle”)), from *pis- and the instrument noun suffix *tlo-. Alternatively from *pistrelo-, with the -tr- variant of the instrument noun suffix. On the one hand, the base *pistrum is not attested, and the phonetically regular outcome of *pistrelo- would probably be pistellum rather than pistillum. On the other hand, reconstructing a *-s-tl- sequence in the base at the time the diminutive was derived is chronologically problematic since *-tl- was changed to *-kl-* from early on in Italic (as seen in the Latin instrument suffix -culum).
Verbs referencing "pistillum"
French Nouns
pistil, English Nouns
pestle, Italian Nouns
pestello, English Nouns
pistillum, English Nouns
pistillidium, Middle English Nouns
pestel.
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