pecu

Meaning

1. (declension-4) cattle
2. (declension-4) domestic animals

Concepts

bovine

bovines

bull

cattle

cow

🐮

ox

🐂

kangaroo bar

roo bar

Synonyms

bos

vacca

🐮

capitale

pecus

Translations

bovini

bovins

rundvee

sığır

ganado

bétail

Rinder

Kühe

Ochsen

βοοειδή

Hausrind

κτήνη

βόεϊος

Ochse

🐂

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈpɛ.kuː]

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *peku, from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu (“cattle”). See also pecus, pecoris (“livestock, herd”) and pecus, pecudis. Doublet of feudum, which was borrowed from Germanic.
Cognates
Cognate with Sanskrit पशु (paśu), Lithuanian pekus and Proto-Germanic *fehu (whence English fee, German Vieh, Low German Veeh, Dutch vee, Danish fæ).