"pistillum" meaning in Latin

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Noun

IPA: [pɪsˈtɪl.lũː] [Classical-Latin], [pisˈt̪il.lum] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
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). Head templates: {{la-noun|pistillum<2>}} pistillum n (genitive pistillī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|pistillum<2>}} Forms: pistillī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], pistillum [nominative, singular], pistilla [nominative, plural], pistillī [genitive, singular], pistillōrum [genitive, plural], pistillō [dative, singular], pistillīs [dative, plural], pistillum [accusative, singular], pistilla [accusative, plural], pistillō [ablative, singular], pistillīs [ablative, plural], pistillum [singular, vocative], pistilla [plural, vocative]
  1. A pestle. Tags: declension-2, neuter

Inflected forms

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