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downy
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?da?ni/
- Rhymes: -a?ni
- Homophone: Downie
Etymology
From down +? -y.
Adjective
downy (comparative downier, superlative downiest)
- Having down, covered with a soft fuzzy coating as of small feathers or hair.
- Sharp-witted, perceptive.
- 1947, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, Speech in UK House of Commons, 10th November 1947:
- 1947, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, Speech in UK House of Commons, 10th November 1947:
- (Britain, Norfolk) Low-spirited; down in the mouth.
Translations
Noun
downy (plural downies)
- A blanket filled with down; a duvet.
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pullus
English
Etymology
From Latin.
Noun
pullus (plural pulli)
- (zoology) A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?pul.lus/, [?p?l???s?]
- (Vulgar) IPA(key): /?pul.lus/, [?p?l??s]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?pul.lus/, [?pul?us]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”) (also see Ancient Greek ????? (pôlos), English foal, Albanian pelë (“mare”), Old Armenian ??? (ul, “kid, fawn”)), which is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh?w- (“smallness”). See also Old English f?aw (“little, few”), Sanskrit ??? (pota, “young animal”) Lithuanian putytis (“young bird, young animal”).
Noun
pullus m (genitive pull?); second declension
- A young animal
- chick, chicken
- foal
- (term of endearment) darling
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
- pull?rius
- pullastra
- pull?
- pullic?nus
- pullulus
Descendants
Etymology 2
Related to palle?.
Adjective
pullus (feminine pulla, neuter pullum); first/second-declension adjective
- dark-colored, dark gray; dusky
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
See also
References
- pullus, i, m. in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pullus, a, um in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pullus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pullus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- pullus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- pullus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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