picus

See also: Picus, PICUs, pičus, and píčus

Latin

Alternative forms

• piccus

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpiː.kus/, [ˈpiːkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.kus/, [ˈpiːkus]

Noun

pīcus m (genitive pīcī); second declension

1. a woodpecker
2. a griffin

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pīcus	pīcī
Genitive	pīcī	pīcōrum
Dative	pīcō	pīcīs
Accusative	pīcum	pīcōs
Ablative	pīcō	pīcīs
Vocative	pīce	pīcī

Derived terms

• piccāre

Descendants

• Asturian: picatueru
• Catalan: picot, picar
• English: Picus
• French: pic, pivert
• Friulian: pic
• Galician: peto, piquelo

• Italian: picchio
• Occitan: picot, picar
• Portuguese: peto, picar
• Sicilian: picchiu
• Spanish: pito, pico

References

• “picus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “picus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• picus 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)
• picus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “picus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “picus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray