Daily Ancestorpistor
Pistor is Latin for a baker; in the oldest Latin it meant a miller who pounded grain, but in parish registers it usually names the baker.
Pistor first meant a man who pounded or ground grain, so in early Latin it could mean miller. By classical times it had come to mean baker, and that is the usual sense in church records.
If a family is called pistor in one entry and molitor in another, the father may have both milled and baked, or the priest may have used the older sense. Compare several entries before you decide.
As seen in a recordLatin baptism register, Moravia, 1790s
Anna, filia Francisci Wagner, pistoris, et Theresiae
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