Reconstruction:Latin/pittus

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

• *piccus

Uncertain; possibly from earlier *piccus, borrowed from Proto-Celtic *bikkos (“small, little”). Alteration of -tt-/-cc- also possibly due to the influence of paucus (“few, little”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪttʊs/

*pittus (feminine *pitta, neuter *pittum); first/second-declension adjective (Proto-Romance)

1. small, little

• pittinus, pitinnus (+ -inus) (merger with pauquinus)
  • Spanish: pequeño
  • Italian: piccino
  • Salentinian: piccinnu
  • Occitan:

    Gascon: pouninn

    Provençal: pechin

  • Old Galician-Portuguese: pequeno
    • Galician: pequeno
    • Portuguese: pequeno
  • Romanian: puțin, pucin
  • Sardinian: pithinnu
• pittitus (+ -itus)
  • Old French: petit
    • Middle French: petit
      • French: petit
  • Old Piedmontese: petit
  • Catalan: petit
• pitulus (+ -ulus) (merger with pauculus)
  • Italian: piccolo (“small, little”)
  • Occitan:

    Provençal: picho

  • Sicilian: pìcciulu (“small; an ancient coin”)

• Romanian: pic

• Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “piccino”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
• Coromines, Joan (1961) “pequeño”, in Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 450b