pecten

See also: Pecten

English

Pecten maximus Pilgermuschel, a scallop

Etymology

From Latin pecten (“comb”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛktɪn/, /ˈpɛktən/
  • Rhymes: -ɛktɪn, -ɛktən

Noun

pecten (plural pectens or pectines)

  1. (anatomy, obsolete) The bones in the hand between the wrist and the fingers. [15th–16th c.]
  2. (anatomy) The pubic bone.
  3. (anatomy) A comb structure.
  4. (anatomy) Short for pecten oculi
  5. (zoology) One of the genus Pecten of scallops.

Further reading

French

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Noun

pecten m (plural pectens)

  1. pecten (scallop)

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *peḱt-
Proto-Indo-European *-ḗn
Proto-Indo-European *pḱtḗn
Proto-Italic *pekten
Latin pecten

    From Proto-Italic *pekten, from Proto-Indo-European *pḱtḗn, ultimately from the root *peḱ- (“pluck”, whence pectō).[1] Cognate with Ancient Greek κτείς (kteís).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    pecten m (genitive pectinis); third declension

    1. comb
      • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 1.405–406:
        Naidēs effusīs aliae sine pectinis ūsū,
        pars aderant positīs arte manūque cōmis
        The Naiad nymphs were there, some with locks dishevelled without the application of the comb,
        others with their hair arranged both with taste and labour.
        1851. The Fasti &c of Ovid. Trans. & notes by H. T. Riley. London: H. G. Bohn. pg. 27.
    2. pubic hair
    3. hair (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
    4. scallop
    5. the reed or sley of a weaver's loom
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 7.10-15:
        Proxima Circaeae raduntur litora terrae,
        dives inaccessos ubi Solis filia lucos
        adsiduo resonat cantu tectisque superbis
        urit odoratam nocturna in lumina cedrum,
        arguto tenuis percurrens pectine telas.
        • 1910 translation by Theodore Chickering Williams
          Close to the lands of Circe soon they fare,
          Where the Sun's golden daughter in far groves
          Sounds forth her ceaseless song; her lofty hall
          Is fragrant every night with flaring brands
          Of cedar, giving light the while she weaves
          With shrill-voiced shuttle at her linens fine.
      1. weaving
    6. an instrument with which the strings of the lyre are struck; a plectrum, quill
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 6.645-647:
        Nec non Threïcius longa cum veste sacerdos
        obloquitur numeris septem discrimina vocum,
        iamque eadem digitis, iam pectine pulsat eburno.
        The Thracian bard in ample dress seven notes does on his lyre strike, and sometimes with his fingers, and here with ivory quill.
      1. the lyre itself
      2. a poem or song
    7. a rake

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative pecten pectinēs
    genitive pectinis pectinum
    dative pectinī pectinibus
    accusative pectinem pectinēs
    ablative pectine pectinibus
    vocative pecten pectinēs

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Insular Romance:
      • Sardinian: pèttene (Logudorese, Nuorese), péttini, péttiri (Campidanese)
    • Balkano-Romance:
    • Italo-Dalmatian:
      • Corsican: pèttine
      • Dalmatian: piacno
      • Istriot: piètano
      • Italian: pettine
      • Neapolitan: pèttene, pèttine
      • Sicilian: pèttini, pèttinu (Calabria)
      • Venetan: peten, petene, petine
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Gallo-Italic:
    • Gallo-Romance:
    • Ibero-Romance:
    • Borrowings:
      • → English: pecten
      • → Interlingua: pectine
      • → Translingual: Pecten (see there for further descendants)
      • ⇒ Ido: pektilo

    References

    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “pectō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 453

    Further reading

    • “pecten”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “pecten”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "pecten", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • “pecten”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • “pecten”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “pecten”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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