pecten

See also: Pecten

English

Pecten maximus Pilgermuschel, a scallop

Etymology

From Latin pecten (“comb”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛktɪn/, /ˈpɛktən/

Noun

pecten (plural pectens or pectines)

1. (anatomy, obsolete) The bones in the hand between the wrist and the fingers.
2. (anatomy) The pubic bone.
3. (anatomy) A comb structure.
4. (zoology) One of the genus Pecten of scallops.

Further reading

• pecten on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• pecten (bivalve) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• pecten (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpek.ten/, [ˈpɛkt̪ɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpek.ten/, [ˈpɛkt̪en]

Noun

pecten m (genitive pectinis); third declension

1. comb
2. pubic hair
3. scallop

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pecten	pectinēs
Genitive	pectinis	pectinum
Dative	pectinī	pectinibus
Accusative	pectinem	pectinēs
Ablative	pectine	pectinibus
Vocative	pecten	pectinēs

Derived terms

• pectinō

Descendants

• Aromanian: cheaptini, chiaptini
• Asturian: peñe, peine, pendexu
• Catalan: pinta
• Dalmatian: piacno
• English: pecten
• French: peigne
• Friulian: pietin
• Galician: peite, pente, pieite, pentello
• Italian: pettine
• Mirandese: peine

• Occitan: penche
• Old Spanish: peyne
• Old Galician-Portuguese: *peitẽe
• Portuguese: pente, pentelho
• Romanian: pieptene
• Romansch: petgen, pettan
• Sardinian: petene, petini, petiri
• Sicilian: pèttini
• Spanish: peine, pendejo
• Venetian: petene, peten

References

• “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’s 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