putsãn

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Aromanian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From a Vulgar Latin *putinus (attested in Medieval Latin pusinnu, pittinus (“small”)), a blend of Late Latin pitinnus (“very small”) and the root of Classical Latin putus (“young boy”), putillus (“very small”).[1] Compare Romanian puțin, Megleno-Romanian puțǫn; further Albanian picërr, Old Logudorese pithinnu, Tarantino piččinnu.[1]

An alternative, perhaps less likely, theory derives it from a Vulgar Latin root *paucinus, from Latin paucus (“few, little”).[2]

Adjective[edit]

putsãn m (feminine putsãnã, masculine plural putsãnj, feminine plural putsãni or putsãne)

  1. a little, little, few
  2. small (in amount)

Adverb[edit]

putsãn

  1. a little, few

Antonyms[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Przemysław Dębowiak, “Contribution à l’étymologie des adjectifs romans signifiant ‘petit’,” in Essays in the History of Languages and Linguistics: Dedicated to Marek Stachowski on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, eds. Michał Németh, Barbara Podolak, & Mateusz Urban (Krakow: Księgarnia Akademicka, 2017), 175–90.
  2. ^ http://www.dex.ro/pu%C8%9Bin
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