*péḱu (“cattle”). See also pecus, pecoris (“livestock, herd”) and pecus, <span class="searchmatch">pecudis</span>. Doublet of feudum, which was borrowed from Germanic. Cognates Cognate...
Lithuanian pēkus (“cattle”). The origin of the suffixal -d- in pecus ~ <span class="searchmatch">pecudis</span> is unknown. (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpɛ.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)...