pisum

See also: Pisum

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).

Pronunciation

Noun

pisum n (genitive pisī); second declension

  1. pea, pease

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pisum pisa
Genitive pisī pisōrum
Dative pisō pisīs
Accusative pisum pisa
Ablative pisō pisīs
Vocative pisum pisa

Descendants
  • Padanian:
    • Ligurian: poîscio, poèixo, pôxo
    • Piedmontese: pòis
    • Venetian: bixo
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • ⇒ Latin: pisum sapidum (“tasty pea”)
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pisellum
    • Italo-Romance:
      • Italian: pisello
      • Neapolitan: pesiello, pesillo
      • Sicilian: piseddu, puseddu
    • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Borrowings:

References
  • “pisum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pisum 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)
  • pisum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old English

Noun

pisum

  1. dative plural of pise
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