Where does “pistać” come from?

pistać (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Italian pistacchio, from Latin pistācium, from Ancient Greek πιστάκιον, from Ancient Greek -ῐον, from Proto-Indo-European -yós — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.

pistać (Serbo-Croatian): pistachio (tree and fruit)

Definitions

  1. pistachio (tree and fruit)

Ancestry of “pistać”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianpistacchionut; pistachio
2LatinpistāciumA pistachio nut
3Ancient Greekπιστάκιονpistachio
4Ancient Greek-ῐονdiminutive suffix; "suffix forming...
5Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yós →Every word from Ancient Greek -ῐον →Every word from Ancient Greek πιστάκιον →