Aromanian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From a Vulgar Latin *putinus (attested in Medieval Latin pusinnu, pittinus (small)), a blend of Late Latin pitinnus (very small) and the root of Classical Latin putus (young boy), putillus (very small).[1] Compare Romanian puțin, Megleno-Romanian puțǫn; further Albanian picërr, Old Logudorese pithinnu, Tarantino piččinnu.[1]

An alternative, perhaps less likely, theory derives it from a Vulgar Latin root *paucinus, from Latin paucus (few, little).[2]

Adjective edit

putsãn m (feminine putsãnã, masculine plural putsãnj, feminine plural putsãni or putsãne)

  1. a little, little, few
  2. small (in amount)

Adverb edit

putsãn

  1. a little, few

Antonyms edit

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Przemysław Dębowiak, “Contribution à l’étymologie des adjectifs romans signifiant ‘petit’,” in Essays in the History of Languages and Linguistics: Dedicated to Marek Stachowski on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, eds. Michał Németh, Barbara Podolak, & Mateusz Urban (Krakow: Księgarnia Akademicka, 2017), 175–90.
  2. ^ http://www.dex.ro/pu%C8%9Bin