Reconstruction:Latin/pittus

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Reconstruction:Latin/pittus

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin

Alternative forms

• *piccus

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly from earlier *piccus, borrowed from Proto-Celtic *bikkos (“small, little”). Alteration of -tt-/-cc- also possibly due to the influence of paucus (“few, little”).

Adjective

*pittus (feminine *pitta, neuter *pittum); first/second-declension adjective

1. small, little

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*pittus	*pitta	*pittum		*pittī	*pittae	*pitta
Genitive	*pittī	*pittae	*pittī		*pittōrum	*pittārum	*pittōrum
Dative	*pittō		*pittō		*pittīs
Accusative	*pittum	*pittam	*pittum		*pittōs	*pittās	*pitta
Ablative	*pittō	*pittā	*pittō		*pittīs
Vocative	*pitte	*pitta	*pittum		*pittī	*pittae	*pitta

Derived terms

• pittinus, pitinnus (+ -inus) (merger with pauquinus)
  • Spanish: pequeño
  • Italian: piccino
  • Salentinian: piccinnu
  • Occitan:

    Gascon: pouninn

    Provençal: pechin

  • Galician: pequeno
  • Portuguese: pequeno
  • Romanian: puțin, pucin
  • Sardinian: pithinnu
• pittitus(+ -itus)
  • Old French: petit
    • Middle French: petit
      • French: petit
  • Old Piedmontese: petit
• pitulus(+ -ulus) (merger with pauculus)
  • Italian: piccolo (“small, little”)
  • Occitan:

    Provençal: picho

  • Sicilian: pìcciulu (“small; an ancient coin”)

Descendants

• Romanian: pic

Further reading

• Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907), “piccino”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
• Coromines, Joan (1961), “pequeño”, in Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 450b