porcus

Latin

porcus fēmina et porculus (a female pig and piglet)

From Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young pig”). Cognate with Old English fearh (“piglet”). More at farrow. Compare also Ancient Greek πόρκος (pórkos).

porcus m (genitive porcī); second declension

For the semantic shift of “pig” to “female genitalia”, compare the same Ancient Greek use of χοῖρος (khoîros).

Second-declension noun.

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: porcu, porc
- Istro-Romanian: porc
- Megleno-Romanian: porc
- Romanian: porc
Dalmatian:
- puarc
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: porcu, polcu, procu
Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: porcu
  Gallurese: porcu
  
  Sassarese: porcu
- Italian: porco
- Neapolitan: puorco
- Sicilian: porcu
North Italian:
- Emilian: pôrch, pōrc
- Ligurian: pòrco
- Friulian: porc ⇒ purcit
- Romansch: portg, piertg; püerch, piertg, portg; püerch
  - → Alemannic German: Porgge (presumably)
- Venetian: porco
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: porc
- Occitan: pòrc
- Old French: porc (see there for further descendants)
Ibero-Romance:
- Old Leonese: [Term?]
  - Asturian: puercu
  - Mirandese: puorco
- Old Portuguese: porco
  - Fala: porco
  - Galician: porco
  - Portuguese: porco (see there for further descendants)
- Spanish: puerco

“porcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“porcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
porcus 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)
porcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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