peduculus

Latin

Alternative forms

• pēdiculus, pēduclus

Etymology

A variant of pēdiculus, itself a diminutive of pēdis.

Noun

pēduculus m (genitive pēduculī); second declension

1. Alternative form of pēdiculus (“louse”).

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pēduculus	pēduculī
Genitive	pēduculī	pēduculōrum
Dative	pēduculō	pēduculīs
Accusative	pēduculum	pēduculōs
Ablative	pēduculō	pēduculīs
Vocative	pēducule	pēduculī

Related terms

• pēduculōsus

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: piduclju, piducljiu
  • Istro-Romanian: peducľu
  • Megleno-Romanian: piducľu
  • Romanian: păduche, păduchi
• Dalmatian:
  • pedoclo
• Italo-Romance:
  • Central Italian: pidocchio, pedocchio, pidochio, piocchio
  • Italian: pidocchio
  • Neapolitan: perucchio, prucchio, pediocchio
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: pieucc, piócc, bdòcc
  • Friulian: pedoli
  • Ligurian: pighéuggio, piéugio, péugio
  • Lombard: pieucc, peucc, pieuc, cieucc
  • Piedmontese:

    Occidental: poj, pieuj, piuj

    Oriental: pieucc

  • Romagnol: bdòcc
  • Venetian: peocio
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: pioly
  • French: pou
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: piollo, piello, pegollo, pedullo

    Ribagorçan: pioll, poll, pllollo

  • Occitan: pesolh (most dialects)

    Auvergnat: peu, piu

    Gascon: pedolh, polh

    Languedocien: peu, piu

    Limousin: peulh, pelh, pesuèlh

    Provençal: pevolh, peu, pou

    Vivaro-Alpine: peu, peolh, peot

  • Old Catalan: posoll, peoll, pooll
    • Catalan: poll, posoll (Capcir)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: pioyu, piochu, pigochu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: peollo
    • Fala: piollu
    • Galician: piollo, piolho (reintegrationist), pollo
    • Portuguese: piolho
  • Spanish: piojo
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: peogu, piogu, piduciu, piducru

Further reading

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