pecu
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *péḱu (“cattle”). Cognate with Sanskrit पशु (paśu), Lithuanian pekus and Proto-Germanic *fehu (whence English fee, German Vieh, Low German Veeh, Dutch vee, Danish fæ).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpe.kuː/, [ˈpɛ.kuː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpe.ku/, [ˈpeː.ku]
Inflection
Fourth declension 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
- pecorālis
- pecorārius
- pecorīnus
- pecorōsus
- pecuālis
- pecuārius
- pecuāsco
- pecuātus
- pecuīnus
- pecūnia
Related terms
- dēpecūlātor
- dēpecūlātus
- dēpecūlor
- expecūlātus
- pecudālis
- pecudifer
- pecūlantia
- pecūlātor
- pecūlātōrius
- pecūlātus
- pecūliāris
- pecūliāriter
- pecūliārius
- pecūliātus
- pecūliō
- pecūliolum
- pecūliōsus
- pecūlor
- pecūniālis
- pecūniāris
- pecūniāriter
- pecūniōsus
- pecuōsus
- 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, page 454
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