penicillum

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of pēniculus.

Noun

pēnicillum n (genitive pēnicillī); second declension

1. A painter's brush
2. (a particular style of) painting

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pēnicillum	pēnicilla
Genitive	pēnicillī	pēnicillōrum
Dative	pēnicillō	pēnicillīs
Accusative	pēnicillum	pēnicilla
Ablative	pēnicillō	pēnicillīs
Vocative	pēnicillum	pēnicilla

Descendants

• Catalan: pinzell
  • → Portuguese: pincel
  • → Spanish: pincel
• Italian: penicillo
• Old French: pincel
  • Middle French: pinceau, pincel, pinciau
    • French: pinceau
  • → Middle English: pencel, pencell, pensel, pensell, penselle, pincell, pinsel, pynsell
    • English: pencil (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle High German: pinsel
    • German: Pinsel
      • → Danish: pensel
      • → Romanian: pensulă
      • → Serbo-Croatian: penzl / пензл, penzlin / пензлин
    • → Polish: pędzel
      • → Belarusian: пэ́ндзаль (péndzalʹ)
      • → Russian: бе́нзель (bénzelʹ)
      • → Ukrainian: пе́нзель (pénzelʹ)
  • →? Sicilian: pinzeḍḍu
• Portuguese: penicilo
• Sicilian: pinzeḍḍu
• Translingual: Penicillium

References

• “penicillum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• penicillum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.