pullicenus

Latin

Etymology

From pullus (“chick, chicken”) +‎ -icus (“of, pertaining to”) +‎ -ēnus (“of, pertaining to”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pullicēnus m (genitive pullicēnī); second declension

  1. a chick, chicken

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

  • French: poussin
  • Italian: pulcino
  • Sicilian: puḍḍicinu

References

  • “pullicenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pullicenus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.