Piso

See also: piso, pisó, and pišo

Latin

Etymology

From pīsō (“mortar”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpiː.soː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpiː.s̬o]

Proper noun

Pīsō m sg (genitive Pīsōnis); third declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, a Roman statesman

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Pīsō
genitive	Pīsōnis
dative	Pīsōnī
accusative	Pīsōnem
ablative	Pīsōne
vocative	Pīsō

Derived terms

• Pīsōniānus

References

• “Piso3”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Piso”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.