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pecten

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English

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Pecten maximus Pilgermuschel, a scallop

Etymology

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From Latin pecten (“comb”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio (France (Agen)):(file)

Noun

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pecten m (plural pectens)

  1. pecten (scallop)

Further reading

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *pekten, from Proto-Indo-European *pḱtḗn, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“pluck”) (whence pecto). Cognate with Ancient Greek κτείς (kteís).

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Noun

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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

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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

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Descendants

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References

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  • “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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