porcus
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young pig”). Cognate with Old English fearh (“piglet”). More at farrow. Compare also Ancient Greek πόρκος (pórkos).
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpor.kus/, [ˈpɔrkʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpor.kus/, [ˈpɔrkus]
Audio (Classical) (file)
NounEdit
porcus m (genitive porcī); second declension
- a piglet, a young pig
- (more generally) a pig, hog
- Short for porcus marīnus (“sea-hog, mereswine, porpoise”).
- (derogatory) glutton, pig
- female genitalia
Usage notesEdit
- For the semantic shift of “pig” to “female genitalia”, compare the same Ancient Greek use of χοῖρος (khoîros).
DeclensionEdit
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | porcus | porcī |
| Genitive | porcī | porcōrum |
| Dative | porcō | porcīs |
| Accusative | porcum | porcōs |
| Ablative | porcō | porcīs |
| Vocative | porce | porcī |
SynonymsEdit
- (pig): sūs
HyponymsEdit
- scrōfa (sow; female pig)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Corsican: porcu
- Gallurese: porcu
- Dalmatian: puarc
- Eastern Romance:
- Emilian: pôrch, pōrc
- Italian: porco
- → Alemannic German: Porgge
- Ligurian: pòrco
- Neapolitan: puorco
- Old French: porc
- Old Leonese:
- Old Occitan: porc, puerc, puerch
- Occitan: pòrc
- Old Portuguese: porco
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: puerco
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: porcu, polcu, procu
- Sassarese: porcu
- Sicilian: porcu
- Venetian: porco
ReferencesEdit
- “porcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “porcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- porcus 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)
- porcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette