English

Noun

pecco ‎(countable and uncountable, plural peccos)

1. Dated form of pekoe.

Italian

Verb

pecco

1. first-person singular indicative present of peccare

Latin

Etymology

From a Proto-Indo-European verbal root *ped- ‎(“to walk, fall, stumble”); see *pṓds (the same source as Hittite [script needed] ‎(pata)[script needed], Latin pēs, pedis, Tocharian A pe, B paiyye, Lithuanian pāda ‎(“sole (foot)”), Russian под ‎(pod, “ground”), Ancient Greek πούς, ποδός ‎(poús, podós), Albanian shputë ‎(“palm, foot sole”), Armenian ոտն ‎(otn), Sanskrit पद् ‎(pád)).^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpek.koː/

Verb

peccō ‎(present infinitive peccāre, perfect active peccāvī, supine peccātum); first conjugation

1. I sin, transgress

   saepe pecco - I often sin

2. I offend.

Inflection

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Descendants

References

• pecco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pecco in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pecco”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • he has made several mistakes: saepe (crebro, multa) peccavit, erravit, lapsus est
    

1. ↑ Ramat, The Indo-European languages