pesto

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pesto

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1937, from Italian pesto, from Latin pistus (“crushed, pounded”), from Latin pīnsō (“to pound, beat, crush”). Cognate to pestle.^[1]

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛstoʊ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛstəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛstəʊ

pesto (usually uncountable, plural pestos)

1. A sauce, especially for pasta, originating from the Genoa region in Italy, made from basil, garlic, pine nuts, olive oil and cheese (usually pecorino).
   • 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 221:

     Inside the house, Paul is in the kitchen bent over a bowl of pesto: thick shiny basil leaves, machete-crushed garlic cloves, pine nuts, onions roasted till their gold edges blacken, and the bright scent of lemon zest.

• persillade
• pistou

• stope, potes, Topes, topes, estop, Petos, T pose, stoep, septo-, Poets, T-pose, poset, e-stop, ETOPS, Potes, poets

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia)

pesto m (plural pestos)

1. pesto

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• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -esto
• Hyphenation: pes‧to

pesto (accusative singular peston, plural pestoj, accusative plural pestojn)

1. pestilence

From Italian pesto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpesto/,
• Rhymes: -esto
• Hyphenation^(key): pes‧to

pesto

1. pesto

compounds

• pestokastike

• “pesto”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• pesot, petos, sepot, sopet

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

pesto

Wikipedia ^it

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.sto/
• Rhymes: -esto
• Hyphenation: pé‧sto

From Latin pistus (“crushed, pounded”), from Latin pīnsō (“to pound, beat, crush”), whose frequentative also gave Italian pestare (“to pound”).

pesto (feminine pesta, masculine plural pesti, feminine plural peste)

1. crushed, ground, beaten
2. livid, bluish, black

   occhio pesto ― black eye

3. pitch-dark, pitch-black

   buio pesto ― pitch darkness

• cartapesta
• pestare

pesto m (plural pesti)

1. (cooking) pesto

• pesto alla genovese
• pesto alla trapanese

• → English: pesto
• → Turkish: pesto

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pesto

1. first-person singular present indicative of pestare

• poste

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

pesto

Wikipedia ^pl

Borrowed from Italian pesto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛs.tɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛstɔ
• Syllabification: pes‧to

pesto n (indeclinable)

1. pesto (Italian sauce especially for pasta)

• pesto in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pesto in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Italian pesto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpesto/
• Rhymes: -esto
• Syllabification: pes‧to

pesto m (plural pestos)

1. pesto

• “pesto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Borrowed from English pesto, from Italian pesto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛsdɔ/,

pesto m (uncountable)

1. pesto