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Reconstruction:Latin/peccuinus
Latin
Alternative forms
- *pittinus
Etymology
Variant of pittinus, diminutive of *pittus, from earlier *piccus, borrowed from Proto-Celtic *bikkos (“small, little”). Alteration of -tt-/-cc- also possibly due to the influence of paucus (“few, little”).
Adjective
*peccuinus (feminine *peccuina, neuter *peccuinum); first/second-declension adjective (Proto-Romance)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | *peccuinus | *peccuina | *peccuinum | *peccuinī | *peccuinae | *peccuina | |
| Genitive | *peccuinī | *peccuinae | *peccuinī | *peccuinōrum | *peccuinārum | *peccuinōrum | |
| Dative | *peccuinō | *peccuinō | *peccuinīs | ||||
| Accusative | *peccuinum | *peccuinam | *peccuinum | *peccuinōs | *peccuinās | *peccuina | |
| Ablative | *peccuinō | *peccuinā | *peccuinō | *peccuinīs | |||
| Vocative | *peccuine | *peccuina | *peccuinum | *peccuinī | *peccuinae | *peccuina | |
Descendants
Further reading
- Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “piccino”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
- Coromines, Joan (1961) “pequeño”, in Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 450b
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