pullus
English edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin pullus.
Noun edit
pullus (plural pulli)
- (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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)
- (ornithology) A pullus; the young chick of a bird.
- Synonym: kuiken
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpul.lus/, [ˈpʊlːʲʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpul.lus/, [ˈpulːus]
Etymology 1 edit
Disputed; two etymologies are plausible:
- From Proto-Italic *polnos, from Proto-Indo-European *polH-on- (“animal young”); compare Ancient Greek πῶλος (pôlos), Proto-Germanic *fulô (“foal”), Albanian pelë (“mare”), Old Armenian ուլ (ul, “kid, fawn”);
- From Proto-Indo-European *put-, also found in Latin putus (“boy”), Proto-Indo-Iranian *putrás (“boy”) and perhaps Sanskrit पोत (pota, “young animal”) (which would indicate *pewt-), Lithuanian putýtis (“young bird, young animal”). De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *putslos, which he considers a variant of *putlos (“boy”). The presence of an earlier apical consonant in the stem in Latin is evidenced by the -s- in the diminutive adjective pusillus.[1] Some authors connect these to the root *peh₂w- (“small”) (compare Latin paucus, Old English fēaw (“little, few”)), but the morphology is unclear and the complete disappearance of the laryngeal is hard to explain.
Noun edit
pullus m (genitive pullī); second declension
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:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Lombard: pói
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
From derivations:
- ⇒ Late Latin: pullanus
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: pulla f
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: pullāmen
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: pullaster, pullastrum (cf. pullastra
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Insular Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pulletrus
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pulleus (attributive)
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: pullīnus
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pullittus (diminutive)
- ⇒? Vulgar Latin: *pūllicella
- ⇒? Vulgar Latin: *pulliter, *pullitrum, *pullitrus
Unsorted:
- Borrowings
References edit
- ^ 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
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
| albus, candidus, niveus, cēreus, marmoreus, eburneus, cānus, blancus (ML.) | rāvus, pullus, cinereus, cinerāceus, plumbeus, grīseus (ML. or NL.) | niger, āter, piceus, furvus |
| ruber, rūfus, russus, rubrīcus, pūniceus, murrinus, 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