pullus
English edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin pullus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pullus (plural pulli)
- (ornithology) A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.
References edit
- “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.
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
pullus m (plural pulli)
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, subalbus, niveus, cēreus, marmoreus, eburneus, cānus, blancus (ML.) | glaucus, rāvus, pullus, cinereus, cinerāceus, plumbeus, grīseus (ML. or NL.) | niger, āter, piceus, furvus |
| ruber, rūbidus, rūfus, rubicundus, russus, rubrīcus, pūniceus, murrinus, mulleus; cocceus, coccīnus, badius | rutilus, armeniacus, aurantius, aurantiacus; fuscus, suffuscus, colōrius, cervīnus, spādīx, castaneus, aquilus, fulvus, brunneus (ML.) | flāvus, sufflāvus, flāvidus, fulvus, lūteus, gilvus, helvus, croceus, pallidus, blondinus (ML.) |
| galbus, galbinus, lūridus | viridis | prasinus |
| cȳaneus | caeruleus, azurīnus (ML.), caesius, 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