pigatia

Latin

Etymology

From French pigache (“kind of hoe, kind of hoofprint, kind of shoe”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /piˈɡa.ti.a/, [pɪˈɡät̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /piˈɡat.t͡si.a/, [piˈɡät̪ː͡s̪iä]

Noun

pigatia f (genitive pigatiae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin, historical) Synonym of pigacia, pigache
   • c. 1140, Orderic Vitalis, Historia Ecclesiastica, Book VIII, Ch. 10:

     ... breviter memini quo tempore cisalpes cepit ineptia pigatiarum et superflua prolixitas capillorum atque vestium terrae sordes frustra scopantium.

     ... I have briefly recalled the time when men on this side of the Alps took up the foolishness of pigaches, overflowing excess of hair, and of clothes uselessly sweeping up the filth of the earth.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pigatia	pigatiae
genitive	pigatiae	pigatiārum
dative	pigatiae	pigatiīs
accusative	pigatiam	pigatiās
ablative	pigatiā	pigatiīs
vocative	pigatia	pigatiae