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pestle

Meaninga pestle

Common meaning: a pounding tool

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√PIS‘pound’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 207, p. 737 · scan
  2. Latinpistillum‘a pestle’source
  3. Old Frenchpestelsource
  4. Englishpestle‘a pounding tool’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin pistillum ‘a pestle’.

Roots

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