pumilus

Latin

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Probably from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-, the same root of puer (“child”) and pūpus (“puppet”).^[1]

pūmilus m (genitive pūmilī); second declension

pūmilus (feminine pūmila, neuter pūmilum); first/second-declension adjective

Used almost exclusively as a taxonomic epithet and thus not normally in inflected forms other than the nominative singular.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	pūmilus	pūmila	pūmilum	pūmilī	pūmilae	pūmila
genitive	pūmilī	pūmilae	pūmilī	pūmilōrum	pūmilārum	pūmilōrum
dative	pūmilō	pūmilae	pūmilō	pūmilīs
accusative	pūmilum	pūmilam	pūmilum	pūmilōs	pūmilās	pūmila
ablative	pūmilō	pūmilā	pūmilō	pūmilīs
vocative	pūmile	pūmila	pūmilum	pūmilī	pūmilae	pūmila

“pumilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“pumilus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

^ Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “pumilus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 389