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Re:Search through historical cookbooks dating back to the Mi... by perihelions on Thursday February 16, 2023 @05:56PM (#34827799)
I think pesto doesn't belong there: it comes from a different Latin word that seems unrelated.

- "From Latin pistus (“crushed, pounded”), from Latin pīnsō (“to pound, beat, crush”), whose frequentative also gave Italian pestare (“to pound”)."

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pesto#Italian

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pasta#Latin

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