peculiaris

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *peḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *péḱu

Proto-Italic *peku

Latin pecū

Latin *pecūlis

Latin pecūlium

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin -āris

Latin pecūliāris

From pecūlium + -āris.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɛ.kuː.liˈaː.rɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pe.ku.liˈaː.ris]

Adjective

pecūliāris (neuter pecūliāre, adverb pecūliāriter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. private
2. personal
3. peculiar, specific
4. singular, exceptional

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	pecūliāris	pecūliāre		pecūliārēs	pecūliāria
genitive	pecūliāris			pecūliārium
dative	pecūliārī			pecūliāribus
accusative	pecūliārem	pecūliāre		pecūliārīs pecūliārēs	pecūliāria
ablative	pecūliārī			pecūliāribus
vocative	pecūliāris	pecūliāre		pecūliārēs	pecūliāria

Derived terms

• pecūliāriter

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Old Sardinian: pecugiare
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Spanish: pegujal

Borrowings:

• → Asturian: peculiar, → pecuñar (semi-learned)
• → Catalan: peculiar
• → English: peculiar
• → Galician: peculiar
• → Italian: peculiare
• → Portuguese: peculiar
• → Spanish: peculiar

References

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