pascuus

Latin

Etymology

From pāsc(ō) (“to feed, maintain, pasture, graze”) +‎ -uus, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːs.ku.us/, [ˈpäːs̠kuʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.ku.us/, [ˈpäskuːs]

Adjective

pāscuus (feminine pāscua, neuter pāscuum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of or for pasture, grazing.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	pāscuus	pāscua	pāscuum		pāscuī	pāscuae	pāscua
genitive	pāscuī	pāscuae	pāscuī		pāscuōrum	pāscuārum	pāscuōrum
dative	pāscuō	pāscuae	pāscuō		pāscuīs
accusative	pāscuum	pāscuam	pāscuum		pāscuōs	pāscuās	pāscua
ablative	pāscuō	pāscuā	pāscuō		pāscuīs
vocative	pāscue	pāscua	pāscuum		pāscuī	pāscuae	pāscua

Derived terms

• compāscuus
• pāscua
• pāscuum

Related terms

Related terms

• pāscālis
• pāscitō
• pāscō
• pāscuōsus
• pāstor
• pāstōrālis
• pāstōrīcius
• pāstōrius
• pāstūra
• pāstus

Descendants

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Leonese: pasco
    • Asturian: pascu
    • Leonese: pascu

References

• “pascuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pascuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pascuus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.