pecu

See also: peču

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *peku, from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu (“cattle”). See also pecus, pecoris (“livestock, herd”) and pecus, pecudis. Doublet of feudum, which was borrowed from Germanic.

Cognates

Cognate with Sanskrit पशु (paśu), Lithuanian pekus and Proto-Germanic *fehu (whence English fee, German Vieh, Low German Veeh, Dutch vee, Danish fæ).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛ.kuː], [ˈpɛ.kʊ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛː.ku]

Noun

pecū̆ n (genitive pecūs or pecū); fourth declension

Declension

Fourth-declension noun (neuter, dative/ablative plural in -ubus).

	singular	plural
nominative	pecū̆¹	pecua
genitive	pecūs² pecū³	pecuum
dative	pecū⁴ pecuī²	pecubus
accusative	pecū̆¹	pecua
ablative	pecū	pecubus
vocative	pecū̆¹	pecua

¹The length of the final vowel is uncertain in the nominative/accusative/vocative singular; Martianus Capella considers it to end with -ū, while Servius considers it to end with -ŭ.
²According to Martianus Capella.
³According to Servius.
⁴According to both.

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References

“pecu”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“pecu”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
“pecu”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 454