pituita

== English == === Etymology === From Latin pītuīta (“mucus, phlegm”). Doublet of pip. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /pɪˈtjuːɪtə/ === Noun === pituita (uncountable) (medicine, now only historical) Phlegm; mucus. , Book I (New York 2001 edition), p.148: Pituita, or phlegm, is a cold and moist humour, begotten of the colder part of the chylus […] == Latin == === Etymology === Unknown. Possibly related to *peyH- (“fat”) but not convincing. Perhaps imitative; compare English ptui, Ancient Greek πτύω (ptúō). === Noun === pītuīta f (genitive pītuītae); first declension mucus, phlegm rheum, head cold ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== ⇒ Medieval Latin: pīpītaItalo-Romance:Italian: pipitaNeapolitan: pepita, ⇒ pepitulaSicilian: pipita, ⇒ pipìtulaNorth-Italian:Friulian: pividaGallo-Italic:Emilian: puìda, pavìa, piuvida, puvidaLigurian: péjaLombard: puìda, puvida, piida, pividaPiedmontese: pëvìa, puvìa, poìa, poìja, puìaRomagnol: puvida, povidaIbero-Romance:Asturian: pebida, pebidalGalician: pebida, pebidePortuguese: pevide⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pippītaInherited:Aragonese: pepida, pepitaCatalan: pepida, pipidaFranco-Provençal: pépia, pepi, pipiFrench: pépieGascon: pepida, pepitaOccitan: pepidaBorrowed:→ Middle Dutch: pippe, pipDutch: pip→ Middle English: pippeEnglish: pipWelsh: pip→ Middle Low German: pip→ Old High German: pfipfiz, pfiffiz, (Central German) pipz, *pippizMiddle High German: phiphiz, pippisAlemannic German: PfiffiGerman: Pips, (obsolete) Pfipfs→ Polish: pypeć === References === === Further reading === AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1141: “la pipita” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it “pituita”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “pituita”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "pituita", 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) “pituita”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.