Wiktionary

pecten

See also: Pecten

English

edit
 
Pecten maximus Pilgermuschel, a scallop

Etymology

edit

From Latin pecten (“comb”).

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

pecten (plural pectens or pectines)

  1. (anatomy, obsolete) The bones in the hand between the wrist and the fingers. [15th–16th c.]
  2. (anatomy) The pubic bone.
  3. (anatomy) A comb structure.
  4. (zoology) One of the genus Pecten of scallops.

Further reading

edit

French

edit

Noun

edit

pecten m (plural pectens)

  1. pecten (scallop)

Further reading

edit

Latin

edit

Etymology

edit

From Proto-Italic *pekten, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱten-s, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“pluck”) (whence pecto). Cognate with Ancient Greek κτείς (kteís).

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

pecten m (genitive pectinis); third declension

  1. comb
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.405–406:
      Naidēs effusīs aliae sine pectinis ūsū,
      pars aderant positīs arte manūque cōmis
      The Naiad nymphs were there, some with locks dishevelled without the application of the comb,
      others with their hair arranged both with taste and labour.
      1851. The Fasti &c of Ovid. Trans. & notes by H. T. Riley. London: H. G. Bohn. pg. 27.
  2. pubic hair
  3. hair
  4. scallop

Declension

edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pecten pectinēs
Genitive pectinis pectinum
Dative pectinī pectinibus
Accusative pectinem pectinēs
Ablative pectine pectinibus
Vocative pecten pectinēs

Derived terms

edit

Descendants

edit

References

edit
  • “pecten”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pecten”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pecten 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)
  • pecten in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “pecten”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “pecten”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=pecten&oldid=79214761"