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.
Cognates
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpɛ.kuː], [ˈpɛ.kʊ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpɛː.ku]
Noun
pecū̆ n (genitive pecūs or pecū); fourth declension
Declension
Fourth-declension noun (neuter, dative/ablative plural in -ubus).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pecū̆1 | pecua |
| genitive | pecūs2 pecū3 |
pecuum |
| dative | pecū4 pecuī2 |
pecubus |
| accusative | pecū̆1 | pecua |
| ablative | pecū4 | pecubus |
| vocative | pecū̆1 | pecua |
1The length of the final vowel is uncertain in the nominative/accusative/vocative singular; Martianus Capella considers it to end with -ū, while Servius considers it to end with -ŭ.
2According to Martianus Capella.
3According to Servius.
4According to both.
Derived terms
- dēpecūlātor
- dēpecūlātus
- dēpecūlor
- expecūlātus
- pecuālis
- pecuārius
- pecuāsco
- pecuātus
- pecuīnus
- pecūlantia
- pecūlātor
- pecūlātōrius
- pecūlātus
- pecūliāris
- pecūliāriter
- pecūliārius
- pecūliātus
- pecūliō
- pecūliolum
- pecūliōsus
- pecūlium
- pecūlor
- pecūnia
- pecūniālis
- pecūniāris
- pecūniāriter
- pecūniōsus
- pecuōsus
Related terms
- pecorālis
- pecorārius
- pecorīnus
- pecorōsus
- pecudālis
- pecudifer
- 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