beccus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly borrowed from Gaulish *bekkos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos. If so, then cognate with Middle English pegge (“peg”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbɛk.kʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbɛk.kus]
Noun
[edit]beccus m (genitive beccī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | beccus | beccī |
| genitive | beccī | beccōrum |
| dative | beccō | beccīs |
| accusative | beccum | beccōs |
| ablative | beccō | beccīs |
| vocative | becce | beccī |
Descendants
[edit]- Asturian: picu
- Emilian: bèc
- Franco-Provençal: bèc
- Old French: bec
- → Esperanto: beko
- Friulian: bec
- Italian: becco
- Old Galician-Portuguese: bico
- Old Occitan: bec
- Romansh: bec
- Sicilian: beccu
- Spanish: pico
References
[edit]- “beccus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "beccus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “beccus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
