pullinus
Latin
Etymology
From pullus (“lamb”) + -īnus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pulˈliː.nus/, [pʊlˈliː.nʊs]
Adjective
pullīnus (feminine pullīna, neuter pullīnum); first/second declension
- of or belong to young animals
- (with dēntēs) 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.
- (asina) quae nōn prius, quam dēntēs quōs pullīnōs appellant iaciat, concēperit, sterilis intellegitur et quae nōn prīmō initū generāre coeperit.
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | pullīnus | pullīna | pullīnum | pullīnī | pullīnae | pullīna | |
| Genitive | pullīnī | pullīnae | pullīnī | pullīnōrum | pullīnārum | pullīnōrum | |
| Dative | pullīnō | pullīnō | pullīnīs | ||||
| Accusative | pullīnum | pullīnam | pullīnum | pullīnōs | pullīnās | pullīna | |
| Ablative | pullīnō | pullīnā | pullīnō | pullīnīs | |||
| Vocative | pullīne | pullīna | pullīnum | pullīnī | pullīnae | pullīna | |
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