pistacium

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πιστᾰ́κιον (pistákion). See also πιστάκη (pistákē).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pisˈta.ki.um/, [pɪs̠ˈt̪äkiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pisˈta.t͡ʃi.um/, [pisˈt̪äːt͡ʃium]
• Note: the single poetic attestation in Late Latin displays a long /ā/.

pistacium n (genitive pistaciī or pistacī); second declension

1. A pistachio nut

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• pistacia (“pistachio tree”)

• “pistacium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press