"porcellus" meaning in Latin

See porcellus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /porˈkel.lus/ [Classical-Latin], [pɔrˈkɛlːʲʊs̠] [Classical-Latin], /porˈt͡ʃel.lus/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [porˈt͡ʃɛlːus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From porculus (“little pig”) + -lus, from porcus (“pig”). Etymology templates: {{af|la|porculus|-lus|gloss1=little pig}} porculus (“little pig”) + -lus Head templates: {{la-noun|porcellus<2>}} porcellus m (genitive porcellī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|porcellus<2>}} Forms: porcellī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], porcellus [nominative, singular], porcellī [nominative, plural], porcellī [genitive, singular], porcellōrum [genitive, plural], porcellō [dative, singular], porcellīs [dative, plural], porcellum [accusative, singular], porcellōs [accusative, plural], porcellō [ablative, singular], porcellīs [ablative, plural], porcelle [singular, vocative], porcellī [plural, vocative]
  1. piglet Tags: declension-2, masculine Categories (lifeform): Baby animals, Pigs Derived forms: porcella Related terms: porcus

Inflected forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Balkan Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rup",
            "2": "purtsel",
            "alts": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "Aromanian: purtsel, purtselu, pãrtsel, pãrtselu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Aromanian: purtsel, purtselu, pãrtsel, pãrtselu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "purcel"
          },
          "expansion": "Romanian: purcel",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romanian: purcel"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Italo-Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "porcello"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: porcello",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: porcello"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nap",
            "2": "porcieddo"
          },
          "expansion": "Neapolitan: porcieddo",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Neapolitan: porcieddo"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "scn",
            "2": "purceddu"
          },
          "expansion": "Sicilian: purceddu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sicilian: purceddu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Insular Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sc",
            "2": "porcheddu",
            "3": "purcheddu",
            "4": "porceddu",
            "5": "proceddu"
          },
          "expansion": "Sardinian: porcheddu, purcheddu, porceddu, proceddu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sardinian: porcheddu, purcheddu, porceddu, proceddu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "North Italian:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "egl",
            "2": "purzèl"
          },
          "expansion": "Emilian: purzèl",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Emilian: purzèl"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lld",
            "2": "porcel"
          },
          "expansion": "Ladin: porcel",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ladin: porcel"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rm",
            "2": "purschè",
            "3": "purschel"
          },
          "expansion": "Romansch: purschè, purschel",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romansch: purschè, purschel"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vec",
            "2": "porseƚo",
            "3": "porselo",
            "4": "porsèl",
            "5": "porzèl"
          },
          "expansion": "Venetan: porseƚo, porselo, porsèl, porzèl",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Venetan: porseƚo, porselo, porsèl, porzèl"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Gallo-Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "porcell"
          },
          "expansion": "Catalan: porcell",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Catalan: porcell"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "porcel",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: porcel",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: porcel"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "oc",
            "2": "porcèl"
          },
          "expansion": "Occitan: porcèl",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Occitan: porcèl"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fro",
            "2": "porcel"
          },
          "expansion": "Old French: porcel",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old French: porcel"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "pourceau"
          },
          "expansion": "French: pourceau",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "French: pourceau"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "wa",
            "2": "pourcea"
          },
          "expansion": "Walloon: pourcea",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Walloon: pourcea"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Borrowings:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cel-bry-pro",
            "2": "*porxell",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Proto-Brythonic: *porxell",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Proto-Brythonic: *porxell (see there for further descendants)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "porculus",
        "3": "-lus",
        "gloss1": "little pig"
      },
      "expansion": "porculus (“little pig”) + -lus",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From porculus (“little pig”) + -lus, from porcus (“pig”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "porcellī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcellus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcellī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcellī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcellōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcellō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcellīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcellum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcellōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcellō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcellīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcelle",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcellī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "porcellus<2>"
      },
      "expansion": "porcellus m (genitive porcellī); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "porcellus<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin terms suffixed with -lus",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Baby animals",
          "orig": "la:Baby animals",
          "parents": [
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Pigs",
          "orig": "la:Pigs",
          "parents": [
            "Even-toed ungulates",
            "Livestock",
            "Mammals",
            "Agriculture",
            "Animals",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Lifeforms",
            "Chordates",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "porcella"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "piglet"
      ],
      "id": "en-porcellus-la-noun-M1isvpOR",
      "links": [
        [
          "piglet",
          "piglet"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "porcus"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/porˈkel.lus/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[pɔrˈkɛlːʲʊs̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/porˈt͡ʃel.lus/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[porˈt͡ʃɛlːus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "porcellus"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "porcella"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Balkan Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rup",
            "2": "purtsel",
            "alts": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "Aromanian: purtsel, purtselu, pãrtsel, pãrtselu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Aromanian: purtsel, purtselu, pãrtsel, pãrtselu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "purcel"
          },
          "expansion": "Romanian: purcel",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romanian: purcel"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Italo-Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "porcello"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: porcello",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: porcello"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nap",
            "2": "porcieddo"
          },
          "expansion": "Neapolitan: porcieddo",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Neapolitan: porcieddo"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "scn",
            "2": "purceddu"
          },
          "expansion": "Sicilian: purceddu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sicilian: purceddu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Insular Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sc",
            "2": "porcheddu",
            "3": "purcheddu",
            "4": "porceddu",
            "5": "proceddu"
          },
          "expansion": "Sardinian: porcheddu, purcheddu, porceddu, proceddu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sardinian: porcheddu, purcheddu, porceddu, proceddu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "North Italian:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "egl",
            "2": "purzèl"
          },
          "expansion": "Emilian: purzèl",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Emilian: purzèl"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lld",
            "2": "porcel"
          },
          "expansion": "Ladin: porcel",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ladin: porcel"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rm",
            "2": "purschè",
            "3": "purschel"
          },
          "expansion": "Romansch: purschè, purschel",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romansch: purschè, purschel"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vec",
            "2": "porseƚo",
            "3": "porselo",
            "4": "porsèl",
            "5": "porzèl"
          },
          "expansion": "Venetan: porseƚo, porselo, porsèl, porzèl",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Venetan: porseƚo, porselo, porsèl, porzèl"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Gallo-Romance:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "porcell"
          },
          "expansion": "Catalan: porcell",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Catalan: porcell"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "porcel",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: porcel",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: porcel"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "oc",
            "2": "porcèl"
          },
          "expansion": "Occitan: porcèl",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Occitan: porcèl"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fro",
            "2": "porcel"
          },
          "expansion": "Old French: porcel",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old French: porcel"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "pourceau"
          },
          "expansion": "French: pourceau",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "French: pourceau"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "wa",
            "2": "pourcea"
          },
          "expansion": "Walloon: pourcea",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Walloon: pourcea"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Borrowings:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cel-bry-pro",
            "2": "*porxell",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Proto-Brythonic: *porxell",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Proto-Brythonic: *porxell (see there for further descendants)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "porculus",
        "3": "-lus",
        "gloss1": "little pig"
      },
      "expansion": "porculus (“little pig”) + -lus",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From porculus (“little pig”) + -lus, from porcus (“pig”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "porcellī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcellus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcellī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcellī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcellōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcellō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcellīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcellum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcellōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcellō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcellīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcelle",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "porcellī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "porcellus<2>"
      },
      "expansion": "porcellus m (genitive porcellī); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "porcellus<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "porcus"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin 3-syllable words",
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin lemmas",
        "Latin masculine nouns",
        "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
        "Latin nouns",
        "Latin second declension nouns",
        "Latin terms suffixed with -lus",
        "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "la:Baby animals",
        "la:Pigs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "piglet"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "piglet",
          "piglet"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/porˈkel.lus/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[pɔrˈkɛlːʲʊs̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/porˈt͡ʃel.lus/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[porˈt͡ʃɛlːus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "porcellus"
}

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