pullus

English

Etymology

From Latin .

Noun

pullus (plural pulli)

  1. (zoology) A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pullus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”) (also see Ancient Greek πῶλος (pôlos), English foal, Albanian pelë (“mare”), Old Armenian ուլ (ul, “kid, fawn”)), which is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“smallness”). See also Old English fēaw (“little, few”), Sanskrit पोत (pota, “young animal”) Lithuanian putytis (“young bird, young animal”).

Noun

pullus m (genitive pullī); second declension

  1. a young animal
    1. chick, chicken
    2. foal
  2. (term of endearment) darling
Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pullus pullī
Genitive pullī pullōrum
Dative pullō pullīs
Accusative pullum pullōs
Ablative pullō pullīs
Vocative pulle pullī
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: pulj, pulju, puljiu
    • Istro-Romanian: puľ
    • Megleno-Romanian: puľu
    • Romanian: pui
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Padanian:
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: pudhu, puddu
    • Sicilian: puḍḍu, pollu

From derivations:

  • ⇒ Late Latin: pullanus
    • Old French:
      • ⇒ Middle French: poulenet
        • →? Scots: powny
          • → English: pony (see there for further descendants)
          • → Scottish Gaelic: pònaidh
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: pulla f
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: pullāmen
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: pullaster, pullastrum (cf. pullastra
    • Italo-Romance:
      • Central Italian: pollastro
        Laziale: pellàstre
    • Padanian:
      • Emilian: pulàstar
      • Ligurian: polàstro
      • Lombard: polàster
      • Piedmontese: polastr, polast
      • Venetian: polàstro
    • Insular Romance:
      • Sicilian: puḍḍastru, puḍḍastra
    • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pulletrus
    • Padanian:
      • Emilian: pulér, pulédar, puliér
      • Ligurian: polêo, poliêro
      • Lombard: poléder
      • Piedmontese: polé
      • Romagnol: pulédar, puledre
    • Italo-Romance:
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pulleus (attributive)
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: pullīnus
    • Padanian:
    • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Ibero-Romance:
      • Asturian: pollín
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pullittus (diminutive)
    • Padanian:
    • Northern Gallo-Romance:
      • Franco-Provençal: polèt
      • Old French: poulet (see there for further descendants)
    • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • ⇒? Vulgar Latin: *pūllicella
  • ⇒? Vulgar Latin: *pulliter, *pullitrum, *pullitrus
    • Italo-Romance:
    • Ibero-Romance:
    • >? Catalan: poltre
    • Insular Romance:
      • Sicilian: putru, puḍḍitru
    • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pulitrella f
      • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pultrella
        • Old French: *poutrelle

Unsorted:

Borrowings
  • → Arabic: (via some Berber language)
  • → Byzantine Greek: -ποῦλος (-poûlos)
  • → Tashelhit: afullus
  • →? Ancient Greek: ποῦλλος (poûllos)
    • ⇒ Koine Greek: πουλλίον (poullíon, diminutive)
  • →? Central Franconian: Pöll
  • →? Luxembourgish: Pëll
  • →? Dutch: pulle, pul
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: polo

Etymology 2

Related to palleō. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Adjective

pullus (feminine pulla, neuter pullum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. dark-colored, dark gray; dusky
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative pullus pulla pullum pullī pullae pulla
Genitive pullī pullae pullī pullōrum pullārum pullōrum
Dative pullō pullō pullīs
Accusative pullum pullam pullum pullōs pullās pulla
Ablative pullō pullā pullō pullīs
Vocative pulle pulla pullum pullī pullae pulla

See also
Colors in Latin · colōrēs (layout · text)
     candidus, albus, niveus, cēreus, marmoreus, eburneus, cānus      rāvus, pullus, cinereus, cinerāceus, plumbeus, grīseus (ML. or NL.)      āter, niger, piceus
             pūniceus, murrinus, rūfus, ruber, russus, rūbrīcus, mulleus; cocceus, coccīnus, badius              rutilus, armeniacus, auranteus, aurantiacus; fuscus, colōrius, cervīnus, spādīx              gilvus, helvus, fulvus, flāvus, croceus, pallidus, lūteus, blondinus (ML.)
             galbus, galbinus, lūridus              viridis              prasinus
             cȳaneus              caeruleus, azurīnus (ML.), blavus (ML.)              glaucus; līvidus; venetus
             violāceus, ianthinus, balaustīnus (NL.)              ostrīnus, amethystīnus              purpureus, ātropurpureus, roseus, rosāceus

References
  • “pullus, i, m.”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pullus, a, um”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pullus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pullus 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)
  • pullus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • “pullus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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