Reconstruction:Latin/pittus

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin

Alternative forms

• *piccus

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly from earlier *piccus, borrowed from Proto-Celtic *bikkos (“small, little”). Alteration of -tt-/-cc- also possibly due to the influence of paucus (“few, little”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪttʊs/

Adjective

*pittus (feminine *pitta, neuter *pittum); first/second-declension adjective (Proto-Romance)

1. small, little

Derived terms

• pittinus, pitinnus (+ -inus) (merger with pauquinus)
  • Spanish: pequeño
  • Italian: piccino
  • Salentinian: piccinnu
  • Occitan:

    Gascon: pouninn

    Provençal: pechin

  • Old Galician-Portuguese: pequeno
    • Galician: pequeno
    • Portuguese: pequeno
  • Romanian: puțin, pucin
  • Sardinian: pithinnu
• pittitus (+ -itus)
  • Old French: petit
    • Middle French: petit
      • French: petit
  • Old Piedmontese: petit
  • Catalan: petit
• pitulus (+ -ulus) (merger with pauculus)
  • Italian: piccolo (“small, little”)
  • Occitan:

    Provençal: picho

  • Sicilian: pìcciulu (“small; an ancient coin”)

Descendants

• Romanian: pic

Further reading

• Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “piccino”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
• Coromines, Joan (1961) “pequeño”, in Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 450b