pestleyoudaoicibaDictYouDict[pestle 词源字典]
pestle: see piston
[pestle etymology, pestle origin, 英语词源]
pestle (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
mid-14c. (as a surname late 13c.), from Old French pestel, from Latin pistillum "pounder, pestle," related to pinsere "to pound," from PIE *pis-to-, suffixed form of root *peis- "to crush" (cognates: Sanskrit pinasti "pounds, crushes," pistah "anything ground, meal," Greek ptissein "to winnow," Old Church Slavonic pišo, pichati "to push, thrust, strike," pišenica "wheat," Russian pseno "millet").