Noun: piston
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | piston |
| Plural m | pistons |
Sample Sentences
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Pour trouver un boulot par ici, il faut avoir des pistons. (To get a job round here you need connections.)
Nouns inflected like piston
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
16th century in the sense of "pestle", borrowed from Italian pistone (15th century), from Latin pistō (“to pound”), from the root of pīnsō (“to crush”). See: Italian Nouns '
pistone', Latin Nouns '
pistō'.
Verbs referencing "piston"
Romanian Nouns
piston, Swedish Nouns
pistong, Catalan Nouns
pistó.
Translations