peduculus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

A variant of pēdiculus, itself a diminutive of pēdis.

Noun

pēduculus m (genitive pēduculī); second declension

  1. Alternative form of pēdiculus (“louse”).

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pēduculus pēduculī
Genitive pēduculī pēduculōrum
Dative pēduculō pēduculīs
Accusative pēduculum pēduculōs
Ablative pēduculō pēduculīs
Vocative pēducule pēduculī

Descendants
  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: piduclju, piducljiu
    • Istro-Romanian: peducľu
    • Megleno-Romanian: piducľu
    • Romanian: păduche, păduchi
  • Dalmatian:
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Central Italian: pidocchio, pedocchio, pidochio, piocchio
    • Italian: pidocchio
    • Neapolitan: perucchio, prucchio, pediocchio
    • Sicilian: piducchiu, pirucchiu
  • Padanian:
    • Emilian: pieucc, piócc, bdòcc
    • Friulian: pedoli
    • Ligurian: pighéuggio, piéugio, péugio
    • Lombard: pieucc, peucc, pieuc, cieucc
    • Piedmontese:
      Occidental: poj, pieuj, piuj
      Oriental: pieucc
    • Romagnol: bdòcc
    • Venetian: peocio
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: pioly, piœly
    • French: pou
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Aragonese: piollo, piello, pegollo, pedullo
      Ribagorçan: pioll, poll, pllollo
    • Occitan: pesolh (most dialects)
      Auvergnat: peu, piu
      Gascon: pedolh, polh
      Languedocien: peu, piu
      Limousin: peulh, pelh, pesuèlh
      Provençal: pevolh, peu, pou
      Vivaro-Alpine: peu, peolh, peot
    • Old Catalan: posoll, peoll, pooll
      • Catalan: poll, posoll (Capcir)
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: peogu, piogu, piduciu, piducru

Further reading
  • “peduculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • peduculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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