Picumnus

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From Latin Pīcumnus (“a Roman deity personifying a woodpecker”), from pīcus (“woodpecker”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”) + *mno-.

Picumnus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Picidae – the piculets.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Neognathae – infraclass; Neoaves – superorder; Piciformes – order; Picidae – family; Picumninae

• (genus): Picumnus albosquamatus, Picumnus aurifrons, Picumnus castelnau, Picumnus cinnamomeus, Picumnus cirratus, Picumnus dorbygnianus, Picumnus exilis, Picumnus fulvescens, Picumnus fuscus, Picumnus granadensis, Picumnus innominatus, Picumnus lafresnayi, Picumnus limae, Picumnus minutissimus, Picumnus nebulosus, Picumnus nigropunctatus, Picumnus olivaceus, Picumnus pumilus, Picumnus pygmaeus, Picumnus rufiventris, Picumnus sclateri, Picumnus spilogaster, Picumnus squamulatus, Picumnus steindachneri, Picumnus subtilis, Picumnus temminckii, Picumnus varzeae - species

• Picumnus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Picumnus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Picumnus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Picumnus at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Picumnus at the Catalogue of Life 
• Picumnus at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN

From pīcus (“woodpecker”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”) + *mno-.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /piːˈkum.nus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /piˈkum.nus/,

Pīcumnus m (genitive Pīcumnī); second declension

1. a minor Roman god of the fields, matrimony, and fertility

• One of two brother deities. Pīcumnus was a personification of the woodpecker (pīcus), and Pīlumnus was a personification of the pestle (pīlus); both were companions of Mars, and tutelary deities of married couples and newborns.
• Pīcumnus was also venerated as the god Sterquilinus (or Stercutus, Stercutius, Sterculius), who was the god of fertilization by manure (stercus).

Second-declension noun.

• “Picumnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press