pistor

Latin

Etymology

From pīnsō (“pound, beat”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpiːs.tor/, [ˈpiːs̠t̪ɔr] or IPA^(key): /ˈpis.tor/, [ˈpɪs̠t̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpis.tor/, [ˈpist̪or]
• Note: the original short vowel was apparently prone to analogical substitution from pīnsō.

Noun

pī̆stor m (genitive pī̆stōris, feminine pī̆strīx); third declension

1. (originally) pounder of far / spelt (a slave who grinds it into flour)
2. (from ~2c. BC, when bread baking becomes a trade) miller and/or baker

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pī̆stor	pī̆stōrēs
Genitive	pī̆stōris	pī̆stōrum
Dative	pī̆stōrī	pī̆stōribus
Accusative	pī̆stōrem	pī̆stōrēs
Ablative	pī̆stōre	pī̆stōribus
Vocative	pī̆stor	pī̆stōrēs

Derived terms

• pī̆strīx
• pī̆strīnum

Descendants

• Old French: pestor, pistor, pestur, pestour, pesteur
• Italian: pistore
• → Old High German:
  • Alemannic German: Pfister, Pfischter
  • German: Pfister
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: фиштар

      Latin script: fištar

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pistrīre *pistriō
  • Old Francoprovençal: pestrir
    • Franco-Provençal: pêtrir
  • Old French: pestrir
    • French: pétrir
    • Norman: pêtri
    • Walloon: prusti

References

• “pistor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pistor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pistor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pistor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pistor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pistor”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “pistor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Venetian

Etymology

Derived from Latin pī̆stor (“miller; baker”).

Noun

pistor m (plural pistori)

1. baker

   Synonym: forner

Derived terms

• pistora
• pistorìa

 

Further reading

• Boerio, Giuseppe (1867) “pistor”, in Dizionario del dialetto veneziano, 3rd edition, Venice: G. Cecchini, page 282