piston
French
noun
Definitions
- piston
- (colloquial) contact, connection
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian pistone derived from Latin pistāre.
Origin
Latin
pistāre
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- multipiston English
- piston English
- pistoned English
- pistonless English
- pistonlike English
- pistonphone English
- *pistālia Latin
- pinsō Latin
- pistāre Latin
- pistone Italian
- pistonner French
- piston Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan