penicillum

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of pēniculus.

Noun

pēnicillum n (genitive pēnicillī); second declension

A painter's brush
(a particular style of) painting

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	pēnicillum	pēnicilla
genitive	pēnicillī	pēnicillōrum
dative	pēnicillō	pēnicillīs
accusative	pēnicillum	pēnicilla
ablative	pēnicillō	pēnicillīs
vocative	pēnicillum	pēnicilla

Descendants

Catalan: pinzell
- → Portuguese: pincel
- → Spanish: pincel
Italian: penicillo
Old French: pincel
- Middle French: pinceau, pincel, pinciau
  - French: pinceau
- → Middle English: pencel, pencell, pensel, pensell, penselle, pincell, pinsel, pynsell
  - English: pencil (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle High German: pinsel
  - German: Pinsel
    - → Danish: pensel
    - → Romanian: pensulă
    - → Serbo-Croatian: penzl / пензл, penzlin / пензлин
  - → Polish: pędzel, pęzeł (Kielce), pęzel (Lasovia)
    - → Belarusian: пэ́ндзаль (péndzalʹ)
    - → Russian: бе́нзель (bénzelʹ)
    - → Ukrainian: пе́нзель (pénzelʹ)
- →? Sicilian: pinzeḍḍu
Portuguese: penicilo
Sicilian: pinzeḍḍu
Translingual: Penicillium

References

“penicillum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
penicillum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.