pistrinum

Latin

Etymology

From pistor (“baker”) +‎ -īnus.

Noun

pistrīnum n (genitive pistrīnī); second declension

  1. mill
  2. bakery
  3. (figuratively) drudgery, oppressive labor
    • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 199–200:
      SĪMŌ: [...] verberibus caesum tē in pistrīnum, Dāve, dēdam usque ad necem, / eā lēge atque ōmine ut, sī tē inde exēmerim, ego prō tē molam!
      SIMO: [...] after you’ve been sliced with the whips, Davus, I'll consign you to hard labor at the mill, and all the way until death — with this condition and omen: that if ever I take you out of there, I will grind in your place!

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative pistrīnum pistrīna
genitive pistrīnī pistrīnōrum
dative pistrīnō pistrīnīs
accusative pistrīnum pistrīna
ablative pistrīnō pistrīnīs
vocative pistrīnum pistrīna

Derived terms

  • pistrīnārius

Descendants

  • Italian: pistrino
  • Old French: pestrin
  • Middle High German: phistrine, pfistrine, phister, pfister
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:

References

  • “pistrinum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pistrinum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “pistrinum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “pistrinum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “pistrinum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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