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pastino

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Pronunciation

  • IPA (Classical): [ˈpas.tɪ.noː][1]
  • IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈpas.ti.no][1]

Forms

pastinō (present infinitive pastināre, perfect active pastināvī, supine pastinātum); first conjugation[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin pastinum (“dibble”) + -ō.[2][1][3] The origin of ⟨pastinum⟩ is unknown, and the OLD compares, perhaps, pāla “spade”, and Wiktionary Proto-Slavic *paxati (“to plough”).[2][4][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Lewis & Short and Gaffiot cite Columella and Pliny.[3][5] Köbler dates Columella to the 1st century AD.[6]

Semantic evolution

It meant to dig and level the ground, trench it with the dibble, especially to prepare it for planting vines, as in Columella and Pliny.[2][3][5]

It survives as Italian pastinare.[1]

Timeline

  • 1st century AD – Columella uses it.[5][6]
  • 23/24–79 AD – Pliny uses it.[5][6]

Meanings

Verb

  1. To dig and trench (ground) for planting.[2][3]

Word family

  • pastināca
  • pastinātiō
  • pastinātor
  • pastinātum
  • repastinō

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  4. ^ Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  5. ^ a b c d Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
  6. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de