pecu

See also: peču

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *peku, from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu (“cattle”). See also pecus, pecoris (“livestock, herd”) and pecus, pecudis. Doublet of feudum, which was borrowed from Germanic.

Cognates:

Cognate with Sanskrit पशु (paśu), Lithuanian pekus and Proto-Germanic *fehu (whence English fee, German Vieh, Low German Veeh, Dutch vee, Danish fæ).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.kuː/, [ˈpɛkuː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ku/, [ˈpɛːku]

Noun

pecū n (genitive *pecūs); fourth declension

1. cattle
2. domestic animals

Declension

Fourth-declension noun (neuter, dative/ablative plural in -ubus).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pecū	pecua
Genitive	*pecūs	pecuum
Dative	pecū	pecubus
Accusative	pecū	pecua
Ablative	pecū	pecubus
Vocative	pecū	pecua

In the singular, only attested in the ablative.

Derived terms

• dēpecūlātor
• dēpecūlātus
• dēpecūlor
• expecūlātus
• pecuālis
• pecuārius
• pecuāsco
• pecuātus
• pecuīnus
• pecūlantia
• pecūlātor
• pecūlātōrius
• pecūlātus
• pecūliāris
• pecūliāriter
• pecūliārius
• pecūliātus
• pecūliō
• pecūliolum
• pecūliōsus
• pecūlium
• pecūlor
• pecūnia
• pecūniālis
• pecūniāris
• pecūniāriter
• pecūniōsus
• pecuōsus

 

Related terms

• pecorālis
• pecorārius
• pecorīnus
• pecorōsus
• pecudālis
• pecudifer
• pecus
• pecusculum

 

References

• “pecu”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pecu”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pecu in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 454