different between porcus vs porcine

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pór?os (“young swine, young pig”). Cognate with Old English fearh (“young pig, hog”). More at farrow. Compare also Ancient Greek ?????? (pórkos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?por.kus/, [?p?rk?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?por.kus/, [?p?rkus]

Noun

porcus m (genitive porc?); second declension

1. a piglet, a young pig
2. (more generally) a pig, hog
3. Short for porcus mar?nus (“sea-hog, mereswine, porpoise”).
4. (derogatory) glutton, pig
5. female genitalia

Usage notes

• For the semantic shift of “pig” to “female genitalia”, compare the same Ancient Greek use of ?????? (khoîros).

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (pig): s?s

Hyponyms

• scr?fa (sow; female pig)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Corsican: porcu

  Gallurese: porcu

• Dalmatian: puarc
• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: porcu
  • Romanian: porc
• Emilian: pôrch, p?rc
• Italian: porco
• Ligurian: pòrco
• Neapolitan: puorco
• Old French: porc
  • Middle French: porc
    • French: porc
  • Norman: por
  • ? Middle English: pork, porc
    • English: pork
    • Scots: pork, porc, porck
• Old Leonese: [Term?]
  • Asturian: puercu
  • Mirandese: puorco
• Old Occitan: porc, puerc, puerch
  • Catalan: porc
  • Occitan: pòrc
• Old Portuguese: porco
  • Fala: porco
  • Galician: porco
  • Portuguese: porco
    • Kabuverdianu: porku
    • Papiamentu: porko
    • ? Guaraní: poryko
    • ? Kaingang: porko
• Old Spanish: [Term?]
  • Spanish: puerco
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: purcit (suffixed)
  • Romansch: portg, piertg, piertg
• Sardinian: porcu, polcu, procu
• Sassarese: porcu
• Sicilian: porcu
• Venetian: porco
• ? Alemannic German: Porgge

References

• porcus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• porcus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• porcus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• porcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Anagrams

• corpus, procus, spurc?

English

Etymology

From Middle French porcin, from Old French [Term?], from Latin porcinus, from porcus (“pig”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?po??.sa?n/
• IPA^(key): /?po??.sin/
• IPA^(key): /?po??.s?n/

Adjective

porcine (comparative more porcine, superlative most porcine)

1. Of or pertaining to pigs.

   Synonym: suilline

2. (derogatory) Overweight to the extent of resembling a pig; morbidly obese.

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• coprine, poncier, preonic

French

Adjective

porcine

1. feminine singular of porcin

Derived terms

• grippe porcine

Anagrams

• pioncer

Italian

Adjective

porcine

1. feminine plural of porcino

Anagrams

• coprine, crepino

Latin

Adjective

porc?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of porc?nus