Latin

Noun

pistrīnum n ‎(genitive pistrīnī); second declension

1. mill
2. bakery
3. (figuratively) drudgery, oppressive labor

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• French: pétrin

References

• pistrinum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pistrinum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pistrinum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• pistrinum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pistrinum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin