beccus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Possibly borrowed from Gaulish *bekkos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *baḱ- (“pointed stick, peg”). If so, then cognate with Middle English pegge (“peg”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbek.kus/, [ˈbɛkːʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbek.kus/, [ˈbɛkːus]
Noun edit
beccus m (genitive beccī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | beccus | beccī |
Genitive | beccī | beccōrum |
Dative | beccō | beccīs |
Accusative | beccum | beccōs |
Ablative | beccō | beccīs |
Vocative | becce | beccī |
Descendants edit
- Old French: bec
- → Esperanto: beko
- Friulian: bec
- Italian: becco
- Old Galician-Portuguese: bico
- Old Occitan: bec
- Romansch: bec
- Spanish: pico
References edit
- “beccus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- beccus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- beccus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.