pipita

Italian

Etymology

From Medieval Latin pipita, from Latin pītuīta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piˈpi.ta/
• Rhymes: -ita
• Hyphenation: pi‧pì‧ta

Noun

pipita f (plural pipite)

1. pip (disease of poultry)
2. hangnail

Further reading

• pipita in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• pipati, tippai

Latin

Alternative forms

• *pippīta

Noun

pīpīta f (genitive pīpītae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) pip, coryza. Alternative form of pītuīta
   • (Can we date this quote?) Glossed as κόρυζα (kóruza) in Latin-Greek glossary.

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: pipita
  • Neapolitan: pepita, ⇒ pepitula
  • Sicilian: pipita, ⇒ pipìtula
• North-Italian:
  • Friulian: pivida
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: puìda, pavìa, piuvida, puvida
  • Ligurian: péja
  • Lombard: puìda, puvida, piida, pivida
  • Piedmontese: pëvìa, puvìa, poìa, poìja, puìa
  • Romagnol: puvida, povida
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: pebida, pebide
  • Portuguese: pevide
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pippīta
  • Inherited:
    • Catalan: pepida, pipida
    • Franco-Provençal: pépia, pepi, pipi
    • French: pépie
    • Gascon: pepida, pepita
    • Occitan: pepida
  • Borrowed:
    • → Middle Dutch: pippe, pip
      • Dutch: pip
      • → Middle English: pippe
        • English: pip
    • → Middle Low German: pip
    • → Old High German: pfipfiz, pfiffiz, (Central German) pipz, *pippiz
      • Middle High German: phiphiz, pippis
        • Alemannic German: Pfiffi
        • German: Pips, (obsolete) Pfipfs

References

• pipita 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)