noun · neutersecond declension
pistrīnum
pistrīnum n (genitive pistrīnī)
Meaning
- mill
- bakery
- figurativelydrudgery, oppressive labor
SĪMŌ: [...] verberibus caesum tē in pistrīnum, Dāve, dēdam usque ad necem, / eā lēge atque ōmine ut, sī tē inde exēmerim, ego prō tē molam!
SIMO: … after you’ve been sliced with the whips, Davus, I'll consign you to hard labor at the mill, and all the way until death — with this condition and omen: that if ever I take you out of there, I will grind in your place!166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 199–200
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pistrīnum | pistrīna |
| genitive | pistrīnī | pistrīnōrum |
| dative | pistrīnō | pistrīnīs |
| accusative | pistrīnum | pistrīna |
| ablative | pistrīnō | pistrīnīs |
| vocative | pistrīnum | pistrīna |
pistrīnum (pristrīnum, Plaut. Pers. 3, 3, 15 Ritschl; id. Ps. 5, 1, 9 Fleck.), i, n. pistor,
I. a place where corn is pounded, a pounding-mill, mill; usually worked by horses or asses; but sometimes a lazy or otherwise bad slave was forced to perform this labor (cf. mola).
I. Lit.:
ut ferratus in pistrino aetatem conteras, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 6, 11: in pistrinum tradi, id. Most. 1, 1, 16: in pristrino credo, ut convenit fore, id. Ps. 5, 1, 9: te in pistrinum, Dave, dedam usque ad necem, Ter. And. 1, 2, 28: oratorem in judicium, tamquam in aliquod pistrinum, detrudi et compingi videbam, Cic. de Or. 1, 11, 46; Pall. 1, 42.—As a term of reproach, of bad slaves: pristrinorum civitas, Plaut. Pers. 3, 3, 15.—II. Transf.
A. Because bread was usually baked at the mill, a bakery:
exercere pistrinum, Suet. Aug. 4: aliquem in pistrinum submittere, Sen. Ep. 90, 22; swine were fed there upon the bran, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 27.—B. A wearisome, oppressive labor, drudgery:
tibi mecum in eodem est pistrino, Crasse, vivendum, Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 144.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
pīstrīnum ī, n
pistor, a corn-mill, poundingmill, mill : te in pistrinum dedam usque ad necem, T.: in iudicia, tamquam in aliquod pistrinum, detrudi: tibi mecum in eodem est pistrino vivendum, must bear the same burden .
Origins
Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnus Latin pistrīnum From pistor (“baker”) + -īnus.
Elsewhere
- Italianpistrino
- Frenchpétrinfrom Old French pestrin
- GermanPfistereifrom Middle High German phistrine
- GermanPfisterfrom Middle High German phistrine
- Slovenepiskerfrom Middle High German phistrine
Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguesepistrina