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Aromanian
Etymology
From a Vulgar Latin *putinus (attested in Medieval Latin pusinnu, pittinus (“small”)), a blend of Late Latin pitinnus (“very small”) and the root of Classical Latin putus (“young boy”), putillus (“very small”).[1] Compare Romanian puțin, Megleno-Romanian puțǫn; further Albanian picërr, Old Logudorese pithinnu, Tarantino piččinnu.[1]
An alternative, perhaps less likely, theory derives it from a Vulgar Latin root *paucinus, from Latin paucus (“few, little”).[2]
Adjective
putsãn m (feminine putsãnã, masculine plural putsãnj, feminine plural putsãni or putsãne)
- a little, little, few
- small (in amount)
Adverb
putsãn
- a little, few
Antonyms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Przemysław Dębowiak, “Contribution à l’étymologie des adjectifs romans signifiant ‘petit’,” in Essays in the History of Languages and Linguistics: Dedicated to Marek Stachowski on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, eds. Michał Németh, Barbara Podolak, & Mateusz Urban (Krakow: Księgarnia Akademicka, 2017), 175–90.
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