# pectus
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pectus.

### Noun

pectus (plural pectora)
* (anatomy, zoology) The breast, especially of a bird.

#### Related terms

* pectoral
* pectus excavatum
* pectus carinatum

### Anagrams

* cupset

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pektos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peg- (“breast”). Cognate with Old Irish ucht.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpek.tus/, [ˈpɛkt̪ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpek.tus/, [ˈpɛkt̪us]

### Noun

pectus n (genitive pectoris); third declension
* chest, breast
* (figuratively) heart, breast, as the seat of emotion
    Synonym: cor
* (figuratively) soul, spirit, mind, understanding
    Synonym: animus
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.509:‘ō nimium facilēs, ō tōtō pectore captae!’“O too easy [souls]! O [those] with every spirit having been captured!” (That is to say, easy to deceive and entirely believing. Several figurative translations are possible. The poetic voice is that of Juno (mythology).)
* person, individual (as a being of passion)
    Synonyms: persona, caput

#### Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

#### Derived terms

* appectorō
* expectorō
* in pectore
* pectorāle
* pectorālis
* *pectorīna
* pectorōsus
* pectusculum
* Pectuscum Palātī
* tripectorus

#### Descendants

* Aragonese: peito
* Aromanian: cheptu, chieptu
* Asturian: pechu
* Catalan: pit
* French: pis, poitrine
* Friulian: pet
* Istriot: pitto
* Istro-Romanian: kľept, chiept
* Italian: petto
** → Spanish: peto
* Megleno-Romanian: kľept, chiept
* Occitan: pitre, pièch
* Piedmontese: pèt, pècc
* Old Galician-Portuguese: peito
** Galician: peito
** Portuguese: peito (see there for further descendants)
* Romanian: piept
* Romansch: pet, pèz
* Sardinian: pettus, petorra, peturra, piturra
* Sicilian: pettu
* Spanish: pecho
* Venetan: peto

#### See also

* pectō
* sinus

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

### Further reading

* “pectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “pectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* pectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. the water is up to, is above, the chest: aqua pectus aequat, superat to take a thing to heart: demittere aliquid in pectus or in pectus animumque suum what he said made a deep impression on..: hoc verbum alte descendit in pectus alicuius to love some one very dearly, with all one's heart: aliquem toto pectore, ut dicitur, amare (Leg. 18. 49) to inspire with religious feeling, with the fear of God: imbuere (vid. sect. VII. 7, note imbuere...) pectora religione to plunge one's sword in some one's breast: gladium alicui in pectus infigere to transfix, pierce a man's breast with one's sword: gladio aliquem per pectus transfigere (Liv. 2. 46)
* pectus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016