pullinus

Latin

Etymology

From pullus (“young animal; foal; chick”) +‎ -īnus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pʊlˈliː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pulˈliː.nus]

Adjective

pullīnus (feminine pullīna, neuter pullīnum); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or belonging to young animals
2. (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.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	pullīnus	pullīna	pullīnum		pullīnī	pullīnae	pullīna
genitive	pullīnī	pullīnae	pullīnī		pullīnōrum	pullīnārum	pullīnōrum
dative	pullīnō	pullīnae	pullīnō		pullīnīs
accusative	pullīnum	pullīnam	pullīnum		pullīnōs	pullīnās	pullīna
ablative	pullīnō	pullīnā	pullīnō		pullīnīs
vocative	pullīne	pullīna	pullīnum		pullīnī	pullīnae	pullīna

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: pollino
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: poin, pojin
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: pollí
  • Occitan: polin

    Gascon: porin

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: pollín
  • Spanish: pollino

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.