penicillum

== Latin == === Etymology === Diminutive of pēniculus. === Noun === pēnicillum n (genitive pēnicillī); second declension A painter's brush (a particular style of) painting ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: pinzell→ Portuguese: pincel→ Spanish: pincel Italian: penicillo Old French: pincelMiddle French: pinceau, pincel, pinciauFrench: pinceau→ Middle English: pencel, pencell, pensel, pensell, penselle, pincell, pinsel, pynsellEnglish: pencil (see there for further descendants)→ Middle High German: pinselGerman: Pinsel→ Danish: pensel→ Romanian: pensulă→ Serbo-Croatian: penzl / пензл, penzlin / пензлин→ Ukrainian: пензель (penzelʹ)→ Polish: pędzel→ Polish: pędzel, pęzeł (Kielce), pęzel (Lasovia)→ Belarusian: пэ́ндзаль (péndzalʹ)→ Russian: бе́нзель (bénzelʹ)→ Ukrainian: пе́нзель (pénzelʹ)→? Sicilian: pinzeḍḍu Portuguese: penicilo Sicilian: pinzeḍḍu Translingual: Penicillium === References === “penicillum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “penicillum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.