pituita

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pītuīta (“mucus, phlegm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪˈtjuːɪtə/

Noun

pituita (uncountable)

1. (medicine, now only historical) Phlegm; mucus.
   • Template:RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncly, Book I (New York 2001 edition), p.148:

     Pituita, or phlegm, is a cold and moist humour, begotten of the colder part of the chylus […]

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Latin

Etymology

Unknown. Have been related to *peyH- (“fat”) but it's not convincing.

Noun

pītuīta f (genitive pītuītae); first declension

1. mucus, phlegm
2. rheum, head cold

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pītuīta	pītuītae
Genitive	pītuītae	pītuītārum
Dative	pītuītae	pītuītīs
Accusative	pītuītam	pītuītās
Ablative	pītuītā	pītuītīs
Vocative	pītuīta	pītuītae

Descendants

• ⇒ Medieval Latin: pipita
  • Italian: pipita
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Galician: pebida
    • Portuguese: pevide
  • → Middle Dutch: pip
    • Dutch: pip
    • → Middle English: pippe
      • English: pip
  • → Middle High German: pfiffiz
    • Alemannic German: Pfiffi
  • → Middle Low German: pippis, pipis
    • German Low German: Pips
      • → German: Pips

Further reading

• “pituita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pituita”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pituita 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)
• pituita in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.