pecten

From Latin pecten (“comb”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛktɪn/, /ˈpɛktən/
• Rhymes: -ɛktɪn, -ɛktən

pecten (plural pectens or pectines)

1. (anatomy, obsolete) The bones in the hand between the wrist and the fingers. [15th–16th c.]
2. (anatomy) The pubic bone.
3. (anatomy) A comb structure.
4. (anatomy) Short for pecten oculi
5. (zoology) One of the genus Pecten of scallops.

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pecten m (plural pectens)

1. pecten (scallop)

• “pecten”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Proto-Italic *pekten, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱten-s, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“pluck”) (whence pecto). Cognate with Ancient Greek κτείς (kteís).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛk.tɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛk.t̪en]

pecten m (genitive pectinis); third declension

1. comb
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.405–406:

     Naidēs effusīs aliae sine pectinis ūsū,
     pars aderant positīs arte manūque cōmis

     The Naiad nymphs were there, some with locks dishevelled without the application of the comb,
     others with their hair arranged both with taste and labour.
     1851. The Fasti &c of Ovid. Trans. & notes by H. T. Riley. London: H. G. Bohn. pg. 27.

2. pubic hair
3. hair (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
4. scallop
5. the reed or sley of a weaver's loom
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 7.10-15:

     Proxima Circaeae raduntur litora terrae,
     dives inaccessos ubi Solis filia lucos
     adsiduo resonat cantu tectisque superbis
     urit odoratam nocturna in lumina cedrum,
     arguto tenuis percurrens pectine telas.

     • 1910 translation by Theodore Chickering Williams

       Close to the lands of Circe soon they fare,
       Where the Sun's golden daughter in far groves
       Sounds forth her ceaseless song; her lofty hall
       Is fragrant every night with flaring brands
       Of cedar, giving light the while she weaves
       With shrill-voiced shuttle at her linens fine.

   1. (by extension) weaving
6. an instrument with which the strings of the lyre are struck; a plectrum, quill
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 6.645-647:

     Nec non Threïcius longa cum veste sacerdos
     obloquitur numeris septem discrimina vocum,
     iamque eadem digitis, iam pectine pulsat eburno.

     The Thracian bard in ample dress seven notes does on his lyre strike, and sometimes with his fingers, and here with ivory quill.

   1. (by extension) the lyre itself
   2. a poem or song
7. a rake

Third-declension noun.

• pectinō
• *pectinīculum

• “pecten”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pecten”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "pecten", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pecten in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pecten”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pecten”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin