pesto

1937, from Italian pesto, contraction of pestato, form of pestare (“to pound in a mortar”). Cognate to pestle.[1]

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛstoʊ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛstəʊ/
• 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

pesto (accusative singular peston, plural pestoj, accusative plural pestojn)

1. pestilence

pesto

1. pesto

• pestokastike

• pesot, petos, sepot, sopet

• IPA^(key): /ˈpes.to/, [ˈpes̪t̪o]
• Stress: pésto
• Hyphenation: pe‧sto

Either from Late Latin pistus (“crushed”), from Latin pinsō (“to pound, to beat, to crush”), or a contraction of pestato, form of pestare (“to pound”, always from pistus).

pesto (feminine singular 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

See the etymology of the main entry.

pesto

1. first-person singular present indicative of pestare

• poste

• IPA^(key): /ˈpesto/, [ˈpest̪o]

pesto m (plural pestos)

1. pesto