Dictionaries › Latin

petulcus

Pronunciation: [pɛˈtʊɫ.kʊs]

“petulcus” is a Latin word. Its 2 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. butting (of horns or head)
  2. wanton, frisky

Etymology

Uncertain, perhaps from *petulō + -cus, from petō; compare petulāns and hiulcus.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “petulcus” there

More Latin words

About this dictionary

The Latin dictionary on Glottosphere has 42,428 entries with a page. Browse the Latin dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.