parricus

Latin

Alternative forms

• parracus, parrocus, parichus, parcus, parchus, parchius, pargus

Etymology

First attested in the Lex Ripuaria. Either borrowed from Frankish *parrik or vice-versa. If a native formation, it would presumably represent the nominalization of an adjective formed from *parra (“pole, post”) +‎ -icus, hence "made of posts".

Noun

parricus m (genitive parricī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. fence
2. game park, cattle reserve
3. fenced-in enclosure

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	parricus	parricī
genitive	parricī	parricōrum
dative	parricō	parricīs
accusative	parricum	parricōs
ablative	parricō	parricīs
vocative	parrice	parricī

Derived terms

• parcarius

Descendants

• Direct reflexes:
  • North Italian:
    • Lombard: parec, parac
    • Piedmontese: parc
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old Catalan: pargue, parregue, *parrec, parc
      • Catalan: pàrrec, parc
    • Franco-Provençal: parco
    • Old French: parc (see there for further descendants)
    • Occitan: pargue, parrec, parc
• Reflexes of a variant *barricus:
  • North Italian:
    • Emilian: bareg
    • Lombard: baric, barec, barc
    • Old Venetan: barco
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Occitan: bargue

      Gascon: barrac

References

• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “parricus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 766
• "parricus", 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)