pullus

English

Etymology

From Latin .

Noun

pullus (plural pulli)

(zoology) A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pullus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpul.lus/, [ˈpʊlːʲʊs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpul.lus/, [ˈpulːus]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”) (also see Ancient Greek πῶλος (pôlos), English foal, Albanian pelë (“mare”), Old Armenian ուլ (ul, “kid, fawn”)), which is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“smallness”). See also Old English fēaw (“little, few”), Sanskrit पोत (pota, “young animal”) Lithuanian putytis (“young bird, young animal”).

Noun

pullus m (genitive pullī); second declension

a young animal
1. chick, chicken
2. foal
(term of endearment) darling

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pullus	pullī
Genitive	pullī	pullōrum
Dative	pullō	pullīs
Accusative	pullum	pullōs
Ablative	pullō	pullīs
Vocative	pulle	pullī

Derived terms

pullārius
pullastra
pullō
pullicēnus
pullulus
*pulliō

Descendants

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: pulj, pulju, puljiu
- Istro-Romanian: puľ
- Megleno-Romanian: puľu
- Romanian: pui
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: pollo
- Marchigiano: puju
Padanian:
- Lombard: pói
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: pôl
- Old French: pol, pul, poul
  - → Middle English: pulle
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Aragonese: pollo
  Ribagorçan: poll, pol
- Catalan: poll
- Languedocien: pol
Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: pollu, pullu
- Old Portuguese:
  - Galician: polo
  - Portuguese: polo
- Spanish: pollo
  - → Portuguese: polho
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: pudhu, puddu
- Sicilian: puḍḍu, pollu

From derivations:

⇒ Late Latin: pullanus
- Old French:
  - ⇒ Middle French: poulenet
    - →? Scots: powny
      - → English: pony (see there for further descendants)
      - → Scottish Gaelic: pònaidh
⇒ Vulgar Latin: pulla f
- Balkan Romance:
  - Aromanian: pulã
  - Romanian: pulă
- Dalmatian:
  - pula
- Italo-Romance:
  - Umbro: pulla
- Padanian:
  - Lombard: pola, póia
  - Romansch: pula
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
  - Franco-Provençal: pola
  - Old French: poule
    - French: poule
      - → English: poule
    - ⇒ Old French: polaille, poulaille
      - French: poulaille
        → Middle English: pullayle
    - Norman: poule
    - Walloon: poye
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
  - Catalan: polla
  - Occitan: pola
    Gascon: pora, potha
    Languedocien: polha (meridional)
- Ibero-Romance:
  - Spanish: polla
- Insular Romance:
  - Sardinian: pudha, pudda
  - Sicilian: puḍḍa, pulla
- → Albanian: pulë
⇒ Vulgar Latin: pullāmen
- Italo-Romance:
  - Italian: pollame
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
  - Old French: polain
    - Anglo-Norman: pulein
    - French: poulain
    - Norman: poulain
    - → English: Pulliam
- Insular Romance:
  - Sicilian: puḍḍami
- → Middle English: poleyn
  - English: pullen (obsolete)
⇒ Vulgar Latin: pullaster, pullastrum (cf. pullastra
- Italo-Romance:
  - Central Italian: pollastro
    Laziale: pellàstre
- Padanian:
  - Emilian: pulàstar
  - Ligurian: polàstro
  - Lombard: polàster
  - Piedmontese: polastr, polast
  - Venetian: polàstro
- Insular Romance:
  - Sicilian: puḍḍastru, puḍḍastra
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
  - Catalan: pollastre
    - → Spanish: pollastre
  - Occitan: polastre (“big chicken”)
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pulletrus
- Padanian:
  - Emilian: pulér, pulédar, puliér
  - Ligurian: polêo, poliêro
  - Lombard: poléder
  - Piedmontese: polé
  - Romagnol: pulédar, puledre
- Italo-Romance:
  - Italian: puledro
  - Neapolitan: pulletro, pullitro
  - Tuscan: puledro, pullero
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pulleus (attributive)
- Aromanian: puljiu, pulj
- Romanian: pui
  - →? Hungarian: pulya
⇒ Vulgar Latin: pullīnus
- Padanian:
  - Piedmontese: poin, pojin
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
  - Catalan: pollí
  - Occitan: polin
    Gascon: porin
- Ibero-Romance:
  - Asturian: pollín
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pullittus (diminutive)
- Padanian:
  - Romansch: poulet
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
  - Franco-Provençal: polèt
  - Old French: poulet (see there for further descendants)
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
  - Catalan: pollet
  - Occitan: polet
    Gascon: poret
⇒? Vulgar Latin: *pūllicella
- Old French: pulcella, pulcele, pucele
  - Middle French: pucelle
    - French: pucelle
  - → English: pucelle
  - → Italian: pulzella
⇒? Vulgar Latin: *pulliter, *pullitrum, *pullitrus
- Italo-Romance:
  - Italian: poltro
- Ibero-Romance:
  - Spanish: potro
  - Old Portuguese:
    - Galician: potro
    - Portuguese: potro
  - Old Portuguese: *poldro
    - Galician: poldro
    - Portuguese: poldro
- >? Catalan: poltre
- Insular Romance:
  - Sicilian: putru, puḍḍitru
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pulitrella f
  - ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pultrella
    - Old French: *poutrelle
      - ⇒? Old French: poutre (apocope)
        French: poutre

Unsorted:

Friulian: poleç
Occitan: polhe
Romansch: pulschain

Borrowings

→ Arabic: (via some Berber language)
- Libyan Arabic: فِلُّوس‎ (fillūs)
- Maltese: fellus
- Moroccan Arabic: فلوس‎ (fallūs)
- Tunisian Arabic: فلوس‎ (fellūs)
→ Byzantine Greek: -ποῦλος (-poûlos)
- Greek: -πουλος (-poulos), -όπουλος (-ópoulos)
→ Tashelhit: afullus
→? Ancient Greek: ποῦλλος (poûllos)
- ⇒ Koine Greek: πουλλίον (poullíon, diminutive)
  - Byzantine Greek: πουλλίν (poullín)
    - Greek: πουλί (poulí)
→? Central Franconian: Pöll
→? Luxembourgish: Pëll
→? Dutch: pulle, pul
- Berbice Creole Dutch: polo

Etymology 2

Related to palleō. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Adjective

pullus (feminine pulla, neuter pullum); first/second-declension adjective

dark-colored, dark gray; dusky

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	pullus	pulla	pullum	pullī	pullae	pulla
Genitive	pullī	pullae	pullī	pullōrum	pullārum	pullōrum
Dative	pullō	pullae	pullō	pullīs
Accusative	pullum	pullam	pullum	pullōs	pullās	pulla
Ablative	pullō	pullā	pullō	pullīs
Vocative	pulle	pulla	pullum	pullī	pullae	pulla

References

“pullus, i, m.”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“pullus, a, um”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“pullus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
pullus 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)
pullus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
“pullus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers