pisum

See also: Pisum

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.sum/, [ˈpɪs̠ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.sum/, [ˈpiːs̬um]

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
  • Venetan: bixo
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: pês
  • Old French: pois
    • French: pois
  • Norman: pais (Jersey), peis (Guernsey)
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitan: pese
• ⇒ Latin: pisum sapidum (“tasty pea”)
  • Mozarabic: biššáuṭ
    • → Aragonese: bisalto, bisalte
      • → Spanish: guisante (influenced by guisar and Aragonese guixa)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pisellum
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: pisello
    • Neapolitan: pesiello, pesillo
    • Sicilian: piseddu, puseddu
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: pèsol
      • → Spanish: pésol
    • Occitan: pesèu
• Borrowings:
  • → Old English: pise
    • Middle English: pese
      • English: pease, pea
  • → Irish: pis
  • → Welsh: pys

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