pecu

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See also: peču

Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *peku, from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu (cattle). See also pecus, pecoris (livestock, herd) and pecus, pecudis. Doublet of feudum, which was borrowed from Germanic.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pecū n (genitive *pecūs); fourth declension

  1. cattle
  2. domestic animals

Declension

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Fourth-declension noun (neuter, dative/ablative plural in -ubus).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pecū pecua
Genitive *pecūs pecuum
Dative pecū pecubus
Accusative pecū pecua
Ablative pecū pecubus
Vocative pecū pecua

In the singular, only attested in the ablative.

Derived terms

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References

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  • pecu”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pecu”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pecu in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 454