pic – Romanian noun declension

Romanian noun forms of pic

Noun: pic
Long Infinitive of Verb:

Nominative

Sg. Indef.pic
Sg. Def.picul
Pl. Indef.picuri
Pl. Def.picurile

Genitive

Sg. Indef.pic
Sg. Def.picului
Pl. Indef.picuri
Pl. Def.picurilor

Vocative

Singularpicule
Pluralpicurilor

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like pic

paleosol, sfarog, serhat, servis, seleaf, sarong, sarsam, safian, sabord, saloon, script, scopos, scolex, schimb, scheci, smiley, slogan, sloboz, slalom, sovhoz, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Uncertain, maybe from the root *peh₂w- (“few, small”).
2. Most likely from Vulgar Latin picca, from earlier *piccus, borrowed from Proto-Celtic *bikkos (“small, little”).
3. Eventually influenced by dissimilation by paucus (“few, little”). Compare Albanian pikë (“a drop; a bit”), Sicilian picca (“a bit, a little”), Italian piccolo (“small”), Spanish pequeño (“small”). Compare also French petit (“small”), English pinch. See: Italian Nouns 'piccolo', French Nouns 'petit', English Nouns 'pinch'.

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