pisum

See also: Pisum

Latin[edit]

pisum n (genitive pisī); second declension

Padanian:
- Ligurian: poîscio, poèixo, pôxo
- Piedmontese: pòis
- Venetian: 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

“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.

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