pecten

See also: Pecten

English

Pecten maximus Pilgermuschel, a scallop

Etymology

From Latin pecten (“comb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛktɪn/, /ˈpɛktən/
• Rhymes: -ɛktɪn, -ɛktən

Noun

pecten (plural pectens or pectines)

1. (anatomy, obsolete) The bones in the hand between the wrist and the fingers. [15th–16th c.]
2. (anatomy) The pubic bone.
3. (anatomy) A comb structure.
4. (zoology) One of the genus Pecten of scallops.

Further reading

• pecten on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• pecten (bivalve) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• pecten (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• pecten on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

French

Noun

pecten m (plural pectens)

1. pecten (scallop)

Further reading

• “pecten”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pekten, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱten-s, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“pluck”) (whence pecto). Cognate with Ancient Greek κτείς (kteís).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpek.ten/, [ˈpɛkt̪ɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpek.ten/, [ˈpɛkt̪en]

Noun

pecten m (genitive pectinis); third declension

1. comb
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.405–406:

     Naidēs effusīs aliae sine pectinis ūsū,
     pars aderant positīs arte manūque cōmis

     The Naiad nymphs were there, some with locks dishevelled without the application of the comb,
     others with their hair arranged both with taste and labour.
     1851. The Fasti &c of Ovid. Trans. & notes by H. T. Riley. London: H. G. Bohn. pg. 27.

2. pubic hair
3. hair
4. scallop

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pecten	pectinēs
Genitive	pectinis	pectinum
Dative	pectinī	pectinibus
Accusative	pectinem	pectinēs
Ablative	pectine	pectinibus
Vocative	pecten	pectinēs

Derived terms

• pectinō
• *pectinīculum

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: cheaptini, chiaptini
  • Romanian: pieptene, pieptăn
• Dalmatian:
  • piacno
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: pettine
  • Neapolitan: pèttene, pèttine
  • Sicilian: pèttini

    Calabria: pèttinu

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: petene, petini, petiri
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: pèten, pätne
    • Ligurian: péteno
    • Lombard: péten, pécen
    • Piedmontese: pento, pecio, peci, pécen
    • Romagnol: pètan, pètne
  • Friulian: pietin
  • Romansch: petgen, pettan
  • Venetian: petene, peten
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: pégno, pigno, péno, péne, pno, pne, piéno, pèigno
  • French: peigne
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: pinte, ⇒ pinta
  • Gascon: piente, pentie, piento, pinti, pende, pentge, pinto, pienti, piendi
  • Occitan: penche (all dialects)

    Limousin: pinte, pinti

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: piente, peine, pine
  • Old Leonese: [Term?]
    • Asturian: peñe, peine, peiñe, pene
    • Leonese: pende, peñe, peine
    • Mirandese: peine
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: *peitẽe
    • Galician: empeña, peite, pente, pieite
    • Portuguese: pente
  • Old Spanish: peyne
    • Spanish: empeine, peine
• Borrowings:
  • → English: pecten

References

• “pecten”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pecten”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pecten in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pecten in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pecten”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pecten”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin