pullinus
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pulˈliː.nus/, [pʊlˈlʲiːnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pulˈli.nus/, [pulˈliːnus]
Adjective
pullīnus (feminine pullīna, neuter pullīnum); first/second-declension adjective
- of or belonging to young animals
- (with dentēs) the first teeth of a colt, milk teeth
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.172:
- (asina) quae nōn prius, quam dēntēs quōs pullīnōs appellant iaciat, concēperit, sterilis intellegitur et quae nōn prīmō initū generāre coeperit.
- A (female donkey) is considered sterile, which has not conceived before she has lost (her) so-called milk teeth and which has not begun to procreate from the very beginning.
- (asina) quae nōn prius, quam dēntēs quōs pullīnōs appellant iaciat, concēperit, sterilis intellegitur et quae nōn prīmō initū generāre coeperit.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | pullīnus | pullīna | pullīnum | pullīnī | pullīnae | pullīna | |
| Genitive | pullīnī | pullīnae | pullīnī | pullīnōrum | pullīnārum | pullīnōrum | |
| Dative | pullīnō | pullīnō | pullīnīs | ||||
| Accusative | pullīnum | pullīnam | pullīnum | pullīnōs | pullīnās | pullīna | |
| Ablative | pullīnō | pullīnā | pullīnō | pullīnīs | |||
| Vocative | pullīne | pullīna | pullīnum | pullīnī | pullīnae | pullīna | |
Descendants
References
- “pullinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pullinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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