pesto

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 (UK)

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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)

• persillade
• pistou

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

pesto m (plural pestos)

1. pesto

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

pesto

1. pesto

• pestokastike

• pesot, petos, sepot, sopet

• 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

Borrowed from Italian pesto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛs.tɔ/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɛstɔ
• Syllabification: pes‧to

pesto n (indeclinable)

1. pesto

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

Borrowed from Italian pesto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpesto/ [ˈpes.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -esto
• Syllabification: pes‧to

pesto m (plural pestos)

1. pesto

• “pesto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from English pesto, from Italian pesto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛsdɔ/, [ˈpʰɛstɔ]

pesto m (uncountable)

1. pesto