The story
- Latin · derived frompistillum“pestle”
- New Latin · borrowed frompistillidium
- English todaypistillidium
From New Latin pistillidium, from Latin pistillum (“pestle”) + -idium.
Words from the same roots
Latinpistillum all →
pestlepistillum
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.