picus
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *pikos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”), whence also Latin pīca (“magpie”).
Romance evidence points to a form with -cc-, perhaps onomatopoeic and/or influenced by Vulgar Latin *pīccāre (“to strike, sting, peck”) and/or Proto-Germanic *pikkōną (“to pick, peck, prick”). Cf. Vulgar Latin *pīcca (“pick-axe”).
Cognate with Umbrian peico (acc.sg.), Sanskrit पिक (piká, “cuckoo”), German Specht (“woodpecker”), Swedish spett (“crowbar, skewer; kind of woodpecker”).[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpiː.kus/, [ˈpiːkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpi.kus/, [ˈpiːkus]
Noun edit
pīcus m (genitive pīcī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pīcus | pīcī |
| Genitive | pīcī | pīcōrum |
| Dative | pīcō | pīcīs |
| Accusative | pīcum | pīcōs |
| Ablative | pīcō | pīcīs |
| Vocative | pīce | pīcī |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “pīcus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 464
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “pīcus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 8: Patavia–Pix, page 432
Further reading edit
- “picus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “picus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- picus 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)
- picus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “picus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “picus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray