peduculus

Latin

Alternative forms

• pēdiculus, pēduclus

Etymology

A variant of pēdiculus, itself a diminutive of pēdis.

Noun

pēduculus m (genitive pēduculī); second declension

1. alternative form of pēdiculus (“louse”)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pēduculus	pēduculī
genitive	pēduculī	pēduculōrum
dative	pēduculō	pēduculīs
accusative	pēduculum	pēduculōs
ablative	pēduculō	pēduculīs
vocative	pēducule	pēduculī

Related terms

• pēduculōsus

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: peogu, piogu, piduciu, piducru
• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: piduclju, piducljiu
  • Istro-Romanian: peducľu
  • Megleno-Romanian: piducľu
  • Romanian: păduche, păduchi
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Central Italian: pidocchio, pedocchio, pidochio, piocchio
  • Dalmatian: pedoclo
  • Italian: pidocchio
  • Neapolitan: perucchio, prucchio, pediocchio
  • Sicilian: pirùcchiu, piròcchiu, piruòcchiu, pidùcchiu, pidòcchiu
  • Venetan: peocio
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: pedoli
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: pieucc, piócc, bdòcc
  • Ligurian: pighéuggio, piéugio, péugio
  • Lombard: pieucc, peucc, pieuc, cieucc
  • Piedmontese:

    Occidental: poj, pieuj, piuj

    Oriental: pieucc

  • Romagnol: bdòcc
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: pioly
  • Old French: pouil, peouil, püil
    • French: pou
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitan: pesolh (most dialects)

    Auvergnat: peu, piu

    Gascon: pedolh, polh

    Languedocien: peu, piu

    Limousin: peulh, pelh, pesuèlh

    Provençal: pevolh, peu, pou

    Vivaro-Alpine: peu, peolh, peot

  • Old Catalan: posoll, peoll, pooll
    • Catalan: poll, posoll (Capcir)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: piollo, piello, pegollo, pedullo

    Ribagorçan: pioll, poll, pllollo

  • Asturian: pioyu, piochu, pigochu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: peollo
    • Fala: piollu
    • Galician: piollo, piolho (reintegrationist), pollo
    • Portuguese: piolho
  • Spanish: piojo

Further reading

• “peduculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “peduculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.