pullinus
Latin
Etymology
Etymology tree
From pullus (“young animal; foal; chick”) + -īnus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pʊlˈliː.nʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [pulˈliː.nus]
Adjective
pullīnus (feminine pullīna, neuter pullīnum); first/second-declension adjective
- of or belonging to young animals
- (with dentēs) the first teeth of a colt, milk teeth
- 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 8.172:
- (asina) quae nōn prius, quam dēntēs quōs pullīnōs appellant iaciat, concēperit, sterilis intellegitur et quae nōn prīmō initū generāre coeperit.
- A (female donkey) is considered sterile, which has not conceived before she has lost (her) so-called milk teeth and which has not begun to procreate from the very beginning.
- (asina) quae nōn prius, quam dēntēs quōs pullīnōs appellant iaciat, concēperit, sterilis intellegitur et quae nōn prīmō initū generāre coeperit.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | pullīnus | pullīna | pullīnum | pullīnī | pullīnae | pullīna | |
| genitive | pullīnī | pullīnae | pullīnī | pullīnōrum | pullīnārum | pullīnōrum | |
| dative | pullīnō | pullīnae | pullīnō | pullīnīs | |||
| accusative | pullīnum | pullīnam | pullīnum | pullīnōs | pullīnās | pullīna | |
| ablative | pullīnō | pullīnā | pullīnō | pullīnīs | |||
| vocative | pullīne | pullīna | pullīnum | pullīnī | pullīnae | pullīna | |
Descendants
References
- “pullinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pullinus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.