peculium

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin peculium. See peculiar. === Noun === peculium (plural peculia) (law, historical) The savings of a son or a slave, with the father's or master's consent; a little property or stock of one's own. A special fund for private and personal uses. === Further reading === Alexander M[ansfield] Burrill (1851), “PECULIUM”, in A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: John S. Voorhies, […], →OCLC, page 787, column 2: “A limited amount of money or property which a son or servant was allowed to have, separate from the accounts or stocks of his father or master; […]” “peculium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. == Latin == === Etymology === From pecū, via an unattested adjective *pecūlis (“belonging to one's livestock/property, own”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɛˈkuː.li.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [peˈkuː.li.um] === Noun === pecūlium n (genitive pecūliī or pecūlī); second declension private property (originally in the form of cattle, but later in the form of savings) ==== Usage notes ==== Often used in Ancient Rome to refer to the payment a teaching slave would occasionally collect from his students. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== pecūliāris pecūlor ==== Related terms ==== pecus pecūnia ==== Descendants ==== === References === “peculium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “peculium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "peculium", 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) “peculium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “peculium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “peculium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin