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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin pullus.

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Noun

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pullus (plural pulli)

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

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin pullus. Doublet of pul.

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Noun

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pullus m (plural pulli)

  1. (ornithology) a pullus; the young chick of a bird
    Synonym: kuiken
    Hyponyms: nesteling, takkeling

Latin

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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    Disputed; two etymologies are plausible:

    Alternatively onomatopoeic, like Swedish pulla.

    Noun

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    pullus m (genitive pullī); second declension

    1. a young animal
      1. chick, chicken
      2. foal
    2. (term of endearment) darling
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    Second-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative pullus pullī
    genitive pullī pullōrum
    dative pullō pullīs
    accusative pullum pullōs
    ablative pullō pullīs
    vocative pulle pullī
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    • 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

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    1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “pjell”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 330
    2. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*fulan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 158
    3. ^ 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

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    Probably from Proto-Indo-European *polHwós (maybe a weak form of *pélHus) or *polHnós, from the root *pelH- (pale, gray), thereby related to palleō, though the formal details are debated.[1]

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

    1. dark-colored, dark gray; dusky
    2. (transferred sense):
      1. of the common people, (especially of speach) vulgar
      2. (in poetry) sad, mournful
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    First/second-declension adjective.

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    See also

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    Colors in Latin · colōrēs (layout · text)
         albus, candidus, subalbus, niveus, cēreus, marmoreus, eburneus, cānus, blancus (ML.)      glaucus, rāvus, pullus, cinereus, cinerāceus, plumbeusgrīseus (ML. or NL.)      niger, āter, piceus, furvus
                 ruber, rūbidus, rūfus, rubicundus, russus, rubrīcus, pūniceusmurrinus, 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

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    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “pullus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 497

    Further reading

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    • 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