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pinnaculum

pinnaculum

Latin

Noun

pinnāculum n ‎(genitive pinnāculī); second declension

(Late Latin) a peak, pinnacle

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	pinnāculum	pinnācula
genitive	pinnāculī	pinnāculōrum
dative	pinnāculō	pinnāculīs
accusative	pinnāculum	pinnācula
ablative	pinnāculō	pinnāculīs
vocative	pinnāculum	pinnācula

Descendants

English: pinnacle (borrowing)
French: pinacle (borrowing)
Italian: pennacchio ‎(“plume”) (inherited), pinnacolo ‎(“pinnacle”) (inherited), (possibly) pinnacolo ‎(“pinochle”) (borrowing)
- French: panache
  - English: panache
Spanish: pinnacúlo

References

pinnaculum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pinnaculum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
pinnaculum in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016