pecu
See also: peču
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *peku, from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu (“cattle”). See also pecus, pecoris (“livestock, herd”) and pecus, pecudis. Doublet of feudum, which was borrowed from Germanic.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpe.kuː/, [ˈpɛkuː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpe.ku/, [ˈpɛːku]
Declension
Fourth-declension noun (neuter, dative/ablative plural in -ubus).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pecū | pecua |
| Genitive | *pecūs | pecuum |
| Dative | pecū | pecubus |
| Accusative | pecū | pecua |
| Ablative | pecū | pecubus |
| Vocative | pecū | pecua |
In the singular, only attested in the ablative.
Derived terms
- dēpecūlor
- dēpecūlātor
- dēpecūlātus
- expecūlātus
- pecuālis
- pecuārius
- pecuāsco
- pecuātus
- pecuīnus
- pecuōsus
- pecūlantia
- pecūliolum
- pecūlium
- pecūliāris
- pecūliāriter
- pecūliārius
- pecūliātus
- pecūliō
- pecūliōsus
- pecūlor
- pecūlātor
- pecūlātus
- pecūlātōrius
- pecūnia
- pecūniālis
- pecūniāris
- pecūniāriter
- pecūniōsus
Related terms
- pecorālis
- pecorārius
- pecorīnus
- pecorōsus
- pecudifer
- pecudālis
- pecus
- pecusculum
References
- “pecu”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pecu”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pecu in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 454
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