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Latin
Etymology
From pullus (“lamb”) + -īnus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
pullīnus (feminine pullīna, neuter pullīnum); first/second-declension adjective
- of or belonging to young animals
- (with dentēs) the first teeth of a colt, milk teeth
c. 77 CE – 79 CE,
Pliny the Elder,
Naturalis Historia 8.172:
- (asina) quae nōn prius, quam dēntēs quōs pullīnōs appellant iaciat, concēperit, sterilis intellegitur et quae nōn prīmō initū generāre coeperit.
- A (female donkey) is considered sterile, which has not conceived before she has lost (her) so-called milk teeth and which has not begun to procreate from the very beginning.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
- Padanian:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References
- “pullinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pullinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.