pistillum

Etymology
From. .

Noun

 * 1)  A pistil.

Etymology
A diminutive formation from the root of and. Perhaps from *pistlelo-, diminutive of *pistlo- (the ancestor of ), from *pis- and the instrument noun suffix *tlo-. Alternatively from *pistrelo-, with the -tr- variant of the instrument noun suffix. On the one hand, the base *pistrum is not attested, and the phonetically regular outcome of *pistrelo- would probably be pistellum rather than pistillum. On the other hand, reconstructing a *-s-tl- sequence in the base at the time the diminutive was derived is chronologically problematic since *-tl- was changed to *-kl-* from early on in Italic (as seen in the Latin instrument suffix ).

Noun

 * 1) A pestle.