Translingual

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Picus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Picidae – a woodpecker.

References

• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691128276

Latin

Alternative forms

• piccus

Noun

pīcus m ‎(genitive pīcī); second declension

1. a woodpecker
2. a griffin

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• piccāre

Descendants

References

• picus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• picus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• PICUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “picus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• picus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• picus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray