pituita

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English

Etymology

From Latin pītuīta (“mucus, phlegm”). Doublet of pip.

Pronunciation

Noun

pituita (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, now only historical) Phlegm; mucus.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , 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

Latin

Etymology

Unknown.[1] Has been related to *peyH- (“fat”) but not convincing.

Noun

pītuīta f (genitive pītuītae); first declension

  1. mucus, phlegm
  2. rheum, head cold

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative pītuīta pītuītae
genitive pītuītae pītuītārum
dative pītuītae pītuītīs
accusative pītuītam pītuītās
ablative pītuītā pītuītīs
vocative pītuīta pītuītae

Descendants

References

  1. ^ 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 468
  2. ^ https://sjp.pwn.pl/doroszewski/pypec;5488255.html

Further reading

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 1141: “la pipita” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • “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.
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