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Definition of pesti - 2 dictionary results

pes⋅to

  [pes-toh]
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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.
Origin:
1935–40; < Upper It (cf. Genoese dial. pésto pesto), It: n. deriv. of pestare to pound, crush; see piste, pestle
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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