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noun
Italian Cookery
.
a sauce typically made with basil, pine nuts, olive oil, and grated Parmesan blended together and served hot or cold over pasta, fish, or meat.
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Origin:
1935–40;
<
Upper Italian
(compare
Genoese dialect
pésto
pesto),
Italian:
noun derivative of
pestare
to pound, crush;
see
piste
,
pestle
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pesto
(ˈpɛstəʊ)
—
n
a sauce for pasta, consisting of basil leaves, pine nuts, garlic, oil, and Parmesan cheese, all crushed together
[Italian, shortened form of
pestato,
past participle of
pestare
to pound, crush]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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pesto
olive oil-based pasta sauce, 1937, from It. pesto, contracted form of pestato, pp. of pestare "to pound, to crush," in ref. to the crushed herbs and garlic in it, from L. root of
pestle
.
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