pecus – Latin noun declension

Noun: pecus
Hyphenation:

Gender: Neuter, Feminine Declension: Third

Nominative

Singular	pecus
Plural	pecora; pecudēs

Genitive

Singular	pecoris; pecudis
Plural	pecorum; pecudum

Dative

Singular	pecorī; pecudī
Plural	pecoribus; pecudibus

Accusative

Singular	pecus; pecudem
Plural	pecora; pecudēs

Ablative

Singular	pecore; pecude
Plural	pecoribus; pecudibus

Vocative

Singular	pecus
Plural	pecora; pecudēs

Sample Sentences

1st century bc, M. Terentius Varro, Rerum Rusticarum, Book II, Ch. 1, §12 (...there is a knowledge of tending and feeding livestock so that the greatest profit is siezed from it... It has nine parts, three divisions of three items each, such that one is about the lesser domestic animals whose three species are the sheep, goat, and pig and another about the greater livestock, in which there are likewise three kinds divided by their nature: cows, donkeys, and horses. The third part is in animals which are not raised so that profit may be seized from them themselves but because of or from the other groups above. They are mules, dogs, and shepherds.)
1st century bc, G. Iulius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico, Book. VI, Ch. vi (Caesar... enters their country in three divisions, burns their houses and villages, and gets possession of a large number of animals and men.)
1st century, L. Iunius Moderatus Columella, De Re Rustica, Book VIII, Ch. iv (...volatile pecus...

...flying herd [i.e., birds]...)
1st century, L. Iunius Moderatus Columella, De Re Rustica, Book VIII, Ch. xvii, Sect. 7 (With our 'stables' arranged on this principle, we will lead in our watery 'herd' [i.e., fish]...)

Nouns inflected like pecus

pecus,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *péḱ-os
3. Proto-Italic *pekos
4. Latin pecus
5. Inherited from Proto-Italic *pekos, from Proto-Indo-European *péḱ-os (“livestock”). Related to pecū, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱu- (“livestock, domestic animals”). Cognates include Sanskrit पशु (páśu, “cattle”), Old Armenian ասր (asr, “fleece”), Old Saxon fehu, Old English feoh, Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿 (faihu), Old Norse fé, Swedish fä and Lithuanian pēkus (“cattle”).
6. The origin of the suffixal -d- in pecus ~ pecudis is unknown. See: Old English Nouns 'feoh', Gothic Nouns '𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿', Old Norse Nouns 'fé', Swedish Nouns 'fä'.

Verbs referencing "pecus"

Old English Nouns feoh, Latvian Nouns nauda, French Nouns pécore.