pecto
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *pektō, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“to pluck”). Cognates include Ancient Greek πέκω (pékō, “comb or card wool”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpek.toː/, [ˈpɛkt̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpek.to/, [ˈpɛkt̪o]
Verb
[edit]pectō (present infinitive pectere, perfect active pexī, supine pexum); third conjugation
- to comb
- (of wool) to card, heckle, comb
- (by extension) to hoe, weed
- (figuratively) to give someone a thrashing, thrash
Conjugation
[edit]The third and fourth principal parts, pexī and pexum, can be written as pexuī and pectitum, respectively, and hence all of their verb forms as such.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “pecto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pecto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pecto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 453
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