pituita
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin pītuīta (“mucus, phlegm”). Doublet of pip.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpituita (uncountable)
- (medicine, now only historical) Phlegm; mucus.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, Book I (New York 2001 edition), p.148:
- Pituita, or phlegm, is a cold and moist humour, begotten of the colder part of the chylus […]
Latin
editEtymology
editUnknown.[1] Has been related to *peyH- (“fat”) but not convincing.
Noun
editpītuīta f (genitive pītuītae); first declension
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pītuīta | pītuītae |
Genitive | pītuītae | pītuītārum |
Dative | pītuītae | pītuītīs |
Accusative | pītuītam | pītuītās |
Ablative | pītuītā | pītuītīs |
Vocative | pītuīta | pītuītae |
Descendants
edit- ⇒ Medieval Latin: pīpīta
References
edit- ^ 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 468
- ^ https://sjp.pwn.pl/doroszewski/pypec;5488255.html
Further reading
edit- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1141: “la pipita” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- “pituita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pituita”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pituita 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)
- pituita in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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