different between mistic vs fistic

English

Etymology

From Spanish místico. Compare Catalan místic, French mistique, Italian mistico, and Ottoman Turkish ?????? (mistiko). These all refer to sailing ships of the Mediterranean, but not necessarily to the same kind of ship. The number of masts is variously two or three and the sails are lateen or square. The New English Dictionary traces the origin to an Arabic word mis?e? "flat surface" (compare ????????? (musa??a?)) but Kahane et al. disagree.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st?k

Noun

mistic (plural mistics)

1. A kind of small sailing vessel used in the Mediterranean, rigged partly like a xebec and partly like a felucca.

Synonyms

• mistico

References

Occitan

Pronunciation

Adjective

mistic m (feminine singular mistica, masculine plural mistics, feminine plural misticas)

1. mystical

Related terms

• misticisme

Romanian

Etymology

From French mystique.

Adjective

mistic m or n (feminine singular mistic?, masculine plural mistici, feminine and neuter plural mistice)

1. mystical

Declension

Related terms

• misticism
• misticitate

English

Etymology

fist +? -ic. Doublet of fisty.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?st?k

Adjective

fistic (comparative more fistic, superlative most fistic)

1. Of or pertaining to boxing or fighting with fists.

   Synonyms: fistical, pugilistic

   • 1865?, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

     This was another common procedure on the part of the ladies of the Hole, when heated by verbal or fistic altercation.

   • Episode 12, The Cyclops

     The Englishman, whose right eye was nearly closed, took his corner where he was liberally drenched with water and when the bell went came on gamey and brimful of pluck, confident of knocking out the fistic Eblanite in jigtime.

Romanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (f?st?k), from Arabic ???????? (fustuq), from Middle Persian pstk' (pistag).

Noun

fistic m (uncountable)

1. pistachio

Declension