Latin

Adjective

pullīnus m ‎(feminine pullīna, neuter pullīnum); first/second declension

1. of or belong to young animals
2. (with dēntēs) the first teeth of a colt, milk teeth
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.172

     (asina) quae nōn prius, quam dēntēs quōs pullīnōs appellant iaciat, concēperit, sterilis intellegitur et quae nōn prīmō initū generāre coeperit.

     A (female donkey) is considered sterile, which has not conceived before she has lost (her) so-called milk teeth and which has not begun to procreate from the very beginning.

Inflection

First/second declension.

References

• pullinus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pullinus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.