peduculus

Latin

Alternative forms

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

Descendants

  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: peogu, piogu, piduciu, piducru
  • Balkano-Romance:
  • 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:
  • 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
  • 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:

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.
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