beccus

== Latin == === Etymology === Possibly borrowed from Gaulish *bekkos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos. If so, then cognate with Middle English pegge (“peg”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbɛk.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbɛk.kus] === Noun === beccus m (genitive beccī); second declension beak, bill (especially of a cock) Synonym: (more common) rōstrum ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Emilian: bèc Franco-Provençal: bèc Old French: bec French: bec Walloon: betch → Dutch: bek → English: beak → Esperanto: beko Friulian: bec Italian: becco Old Galician-Portuguese: bico Galician: bico Portuguese: bico Old Occitan: bec Catalan: bec Occitan: bèc Romansh: bec Sicilian: beccu Spanish: pico === References === “beccus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "beccus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “beccus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.