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English

Etymology

From French piston.

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?s't?n, IPA^(key): /?p?st?n/
• Rhymes: -?st?n

Noun

piston (plural pistons)

1. A solid disk or cylinder that fits inside a hollow cylinder, and moves under pressure (as in an engine) or displaces fluid (as in a pump)
2. (music) A valve device in some brass instruments for changing the pitch
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Derived terms

• piston rod
• piston ring
• pistoning

Translations

Verb

piston (third-person singular simple present pistons, present participle pistoning, simple past and past participle pistoned)

1. (intransitive) To move up and down or in and out like a piston.

Anagrams

• Pintos, Points, Tipson, instop, opts in, pinots, pintos, pitons, points, posnit, postin

Finnish

Noun

piston

1. Genitive singular form of pisto.

French

Etymology

16th century in the sense of "pestle", borrowed from Italian pistone (15th century), from Latin pist?re, from the root p?ns? (“I crush”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pis.t??/

Noun

piston m (plural pistons)

1. piston
2. (colloquial) contact, connection

Derived terms

• pistonner

Further reading

• “piston” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• pitons, points

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch piston, from French piston, from Italian pistone (15th century), from Latin pist?re, from the root p?ns? (“I crush”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?st?n]
• Hyphenation: pis?ton

Noun

piston (first-person possessive pistonku, second-person possessive pistonmu, third-person possessive pistonnya)

1. (engineering) piston.

Further reading

• “piston” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French piston.

Noun

piston n (plural pistoane)

1. piston
2. (music) piston

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English bisontes (plural), from Old French bison, from Latin bis?n, bis?nt- (“wild ox”), from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”), from Proto-Indo-European *wisAn- (“aurochs, aurochs horn”), from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow, melt”). Akin to Old High German wisunt (“bison”), German Wisent (“bison”), Old English wesend, wusend (“bison, buffalo, wild ox”), Middle Dutch w?sent (“wild ox”). Doublet of wisent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba??s?n/
• Rhymes: -a?s?n

Noun

bison (plural bison or (chiefly dated) bisons)

1. A wild ox, Bison bonasus.

   Synonyms: wisent, European bison

2. A similar North American animal, Bison bison.

   Synonyms: American bison, (imprecise) buffalo, (imprecise) American buffalo

Translations

Further reading

• bison on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• bison on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Ibson, binos, bions

French

Etymology

From Latin bison.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.z??/

Noun

bison m (plural bisons, feminine bisonne)

1. buffalo (North American bison)
2. wisent (European bison)

Descendants

• ? Russian: ?????? (bizón) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “bison” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“bison, wisent”). Compare Ancient Greek ????? (bís?n).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bi.so?n/, [?b?s?o?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bi.son/, [?bi?s??n]

Noun

bis?n m (genitive bis?ntis); third declension

1. bison (Bison bonasus)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Further reading

• bison in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bison in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norman

Etymology

From Old French bison, from Latin bis?n, bis?nt- (“wild ox”), from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”).

Noun

bison f (plural bisons)

1. (Jersey) bison