pectus

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Latin pectus.

NounEdit

pectus ‎(plural pectora)

1. (anatomy, zoology) The breast, especially of a bird.

Related termsEdit

• pectus excavatum
• pectus carinatum

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Italic *pektos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peg- ‎(“breast”). Cognate with Old Irish ucht.

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpek.tus/, [ˈpɛk.tʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpek.tus/

NounEdit

pectus n ‎(genitive pectoris); third declension

1. chest, breast
2. (figuratively) heart, breast, as the seat of emotion
3. (figuratively) soul, spirit, mind, understanding
4. person, individual (as a being of passion)

InflectionEdit

Third declension neuter.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	pectus	pectora
genitive	pectoris	pectorum
dative	pectorī	pectoribus
accusative	pectus	pectora
ablative	pectore	pectoribus
vocative	pectus	pectora

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

in pectore pectorāle pectorālis

pectorōsus pectusculum Pectuscum Palātī

DescendantsEdit

Aragonese: peito Aromanian: cheptu Asturian: pechu Catalan: pit French: pis, poitrine Friulian: pet Galician: peito

Istriot: pitto Istro-Romanian: kľeptu Italian: petto Megleno-Romanian: kľeptu Occitan: pitre, pièch Portuguese: peito Romanian: piept

Romansch: pet, pèz Sardinian: petus, petorra, peturra, piturra Sicilian: pettu Spanish: pecho, peto Venetian: peto

See alsoEdit

• pectō
• sinus

ReferencesEdit

• pectus in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pectus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pectus in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the water is up to, is above, the chest: aqua pectus aequat, superat
    
  • to take a thing to heart: demittere aliquid in pectus or in pectus animumque suum
    
  • what he said made a deep impression on..: hoc verbum alte descendit in pectus alicuius
    
  • to love some one very dearly, with all one's heart: aliquem toto pectore, ut dicitur, amare (Leg. 18. 49)
    
  • to inspire with religious feeling, with the fear of God: imbuere (vid. sect. VII. 7, note imbuere...) pectora religione
    
  • to plunge one's sword in some one's breast: gladium alicui in pectus infigere
    
  • to transfix, pierce a man's breast with one's sword: gladio aliquem per pectus transfigere (Liv. 2. 46)
    
• pectus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016