pullus – Latin noun declension

Latin noun forms of pullus

Noun: pullus
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine Declension: Second

Nominative

Singularpullus
Pluralpullī

Genitive

Singularpullī
Pluralpullōrum

Dative

Singularpullō
Pluralpullīs

Accusative

Singularpullum
Pluralpullōs

Ablative

Singularpullō
Pluralpullīs

Vocative

Singularpulle
Pluralpullī

Sample Sentences

  • Facere iis [gliribus] cavos oportet laxiores, ubi pullos parere possint; aquam esse tenuem, quod ea non utuntur multum et aridum locum quaerunt. ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Rerum rusticarum III.XV.1–2]
  • […]absentis ranae pullis vituli pede pressis / unus ubi effugit, matri denarrat, ut ingens / belua cognatos eliserit: illa rogare, / quantane? ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 35 BCE, Horatius, Sermones 2.3.314–317]
  • Conminxit lectum potus mensave catillum / Evandri manibus tritum deiecit: ob hanc rem, / aut positum ante mea quia pullum in parte catini / sustulit esuriens, minus hoc iucundus amicus / sit mihi? ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 35 BCE, Horatius, Sermones 1.3.90–94]
  • bene erat non piscibus urbe petitis, / sed pullo atque haedo ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 35 BCE, Horatius, Sermones 2.2.120–121]
  • Exsulta satis, filia Sion; iubila, filia Ierusalem: ecce rex tuus veniet tibi, iustus et salvator: ipse pauper, et ascendens super asinam et super pullum filium asinae. (Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion; make jubilation, O daughter of Jerusalem: BEHOLD THY KING will come to thee, the just and saviour: he is poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.) [Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Zaccharias [Zechariah] 9:9, page 1424, column 1:]
  • Propagatio pomorum, aliarum arborum. Ab arbore abs terra pulli qui nascentur, eos in terram deprimito extollitoque primorem partem, uti radicem capiat;[…] ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [234 BCE – 149 BCE, Marcus Porcius Cato, De agri cultura 51]
  • Concludere in fenestram firmiter, / Vnde auscultare possis, quom ego illam ausculer. / Quom mihi illa dicet: mi animule, mi Olympio, / Mea vita, mea mellilla, mea festivitas: / Sine tuos ocellos deosculer, voluptas mea, / Sine, amabo, ted amari, meus festus dies, / Meus pullus passer, mea columba, mi lepus:[…] ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 180 BCE, Plautus, Casina I.1.44–1.52]
  • Itaque ut a Miseno movit quamvis lugentis habitu et funus Tiberi prosequens, tamen inter altaria et victimas ardentisque taedas densissimo et laetissimo obviorum agmine incessit, super fausta nomina "sidus" et "pullum" et "pupum" et "alumnum" appellantium;[…] ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Vita Gai 13]

Nouns inflected like pullus

priāpismus, scāpus, servus, cuneolus, sargus, saccus, scarus, scinus, scopus, illēgitimus, sorbus, sophus, somnus, Hispānus, soccus, sirpus, siclus, icterus, cunīculus, xystus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Disputed; two etymologies are plausible:
2. * From Proto-Italic *polnos, from Proto-Indo-European *polH-on- (“offspring, (animal) young”); compare Ancient Greek πῶλος (pôlos, “foal; young girl”), Proto-Germanic *fulô (“foal”), Albanian pjellë (“child”) and pelë (“mare”), Old Armenian ուլ (ul, “kid, fawn”). The verbal root is likely found in Albanian pjell (“to beget”), which implies a connection to pellō (“to drive, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- with a semantic shift of “to push (out)” > “to beget”, if not a distinct root *pelH- (“to give birth”).
3. * From Proto-Indo-European *put-, also found in Latin putus (“boy”), Proto-Indo-Iranian *putrás (“boy”) and perhaps Sanskrit पोत (pota, “young animal”) (which would indicate *pewt-, though more likely borrowed from Dravidian) and Lithuanian putýtis (“young bird, young animal”). De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Italic *putslos, which he considers a variant of *putlos (“boy”). The presence of an earlier apical consonant in the stem in Latin is evidenced by the -s- in the diminutive adjective pusillus. Some authors connect these to the root *peh₂w- (“small”) (compare Latin paulus, paullus (“small”) and paucus (“little, few”), Old English fēaw (“little, few”)), but the morphology is unclear and the complete disappearance of the laryngeal is hard to explain.
4. Alternatively onomatopoeic, like Swedish pulla. See: Ancient Greek Nouns 'πῶλος'.

Verbs referencing "pullus"

Italian Nouns pollo, Spanish Nouns pollo, English Nouns foal, Galician Nouns polo, English Nouns poultry, Catalan Nouns poll, English Nouns poule, French Nouns poule, Italian Nouns poiana, English Nouns pollera, Catalan Nouns polla, Spanish Nouns polla, Latin Nouns falco, Romanian Nouns pulă, Dutch Nouns bolder, Italian Nouns puledro, Galician Nouns pola, Spanish Nouns repollo, Romanian Nouns pui, Portuguese Nouns potro, Spanish Nouns potro, Greek Nouns πουλί, Italian Nouns pulzella, Italian Nouns pulcino, Italian Nouns pollastro, Italian Nouns pollastra, Italian Nouns pelandrone, French Nouns poulain, Middle English Nouns pulle, Ancient Greek Nouns πῶλος, Asturian Nouns pollu, Galician Nouns repolo, Catalan Nouns poncella.

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