English edit

Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from Latin pullus.

Noun edit

pullus (plural pulli)

  1. (ornithology) A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pullus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Dutch edit

Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from Latin pullus. Doublet of pul.

Noun edit

pullus m (plural pulli)

  1. (ornithology) A pullus; the young chick of a bird.
    Synonym: kuiken

Latin edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Disputed; two etymologies are plausible:

Noun edit

pullus m (genitive pullī); second declension

  1. a young animal
    1. chick, chicken
    2. foal
  2. (term of endearment) darling
Declension edit

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pullus pullī
Genitive pullī pullōrum
Dative pullō pullīs
Accusative pullum pullōs
Ablative pullō pullīs
Vocative pulle pullī
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: pulj, pulju, puljiu
    • Istro-Romanian: puľ
    • Megleno-Romanian: puľu
    • Romanian: pui
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Padanian:
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:

From derivations:

Unsorted:

Borrowings

References edit

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “putus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 502–503

Etymology 2 edit

Related to palleō. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Adjective edit

pullus (feminine pulla, neuter pullum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. dark-colored, dark gray; dusky
Declension edit

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative pullus pulla pullum pullī pullae pulla
Genitive pullī pullae pullī pullōrum pullārum pullōrum
Dative pullō pullō pullīs
Accusative pullum pullam pullum pullōs pullās pulla
Ablative pullō pullā pullō pullīs
Vocative pulle pulla pullum pullī pullae pulla

See also edit

Colors in Latin · colōrēs (layout · text)
     albus, candidus, niveus, cēreus, marmoreus, eburneus, cānus, blancus (ML.)      rāvus, pullus, cinereus, cinerāceus, plumbeusgrīseus (ML. or NL.)      niger, āter, piceus, furvus
             ruber, rūfus, russus, rubrīcus, pūniceusmurrinus, mulleus; cocceus, coccīnus, badius              rutilus, armeniacus, aurantius, aurantiacus; fuscus, colōrius, cervīnus, spādīx, castaneus, aquilus, fulvus, brunneus (ML.)              flāvus, fulvus, lūteus, gilvus, helvus, croceus, pallidus, blondinus (ML.)
             galbus, galbinus, lūridus              viridis              prasinus
             cȳaneus              caeruleus, azurīnus (ML.), blāvus (LL.)              glaucus; līvidus; venetus
             violāceus, ianthinus, balaustīnus (NL.)              ostrīnus, amethystīnus              purpureus, ātropurpureus, roseus, rosāceus

Further reading edit

  • pullus, i, m.”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pullus, a, um”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pullus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pullus 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)
  • pullus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • pullus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers