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Reconstruction:Latin/pittus
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This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence. |
Latin
Alternative forms
- *piccus
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly 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
*pittus (feminine *pitta, neuter *pittum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | *pittus | *pitta | *pittum | *pittī | *pittae | *pitta | |
| Genitive | *pittī | *pittae | *pittī | *pittōrum | *pittārum | *pittōrum | |
| Dative | *pittō | *pittō | *pittīs | ||||
| Accusative | *pittum | *pittam | *pittum | *pittōs | *pittās | *pitta | |
| Ablative | *pittō | *pittā | *pittō | *pittīs | |||
| Vocative | *pitte | *pitta | *pittum | *pittī | *pittae | *pitta | |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Romanian: pic
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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