Translation
pistol
Word origin
The origin is genuinely disputed, and the two standard accounts sit side by side in the dictionaries.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- pistole
- English cognates
- pistol
Other proposed origins
- The account most etymologists now prefer traces it to Czech pistala, a pipe or whistle, the name of a Hussite hand-gun that reached western Europe through German Pistole and French pistole. (pistala)
- The older account derives it from Pistoia, the Tuscan town known for metalworking, on the assumption that the weapon was named for where it was made. (Pistoia)
Examples
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The officer put the pistol on the table.
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A pistol is a small weapon.
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He did not want to shoot with the pistol.
is the handgun specifically. The general word for any weapon is , and a rifle is . The verb for firing one is , so per is to shoot with a pistol and o is the generic firearm built from that same root.
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