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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.
Pronunciation
Noun
pecū n (genitive *pecūs); fourth declension
- cattle
- domestic animals
Declension
Fourth-declension noun (neuter, dative/ablative plural in -ubus).
In the singular, only attested in the ablative.
Derived terms
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