pectus

Borrowed from Latin pectus.

pectus (plural pectora)

1. (anatomy, zoology) The breast, especially of a bird.

• pectoral
• pectus excavatum
• pectus carinatum

• cupset

Likely cognate with Old Irish ucht, but a Proto-Indo-European precursor is uncertain, as is the connection to Sanskrit पक्ष (pakṣá, “wing”).^[1] Suggestions include *pekt-, *pek- and *peg- (“breast”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛk.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛk.tus]

pectus n (genitive pectoris); third declension

1. chest, breast
2. (figuratively) heart, breast, as the seat of emotion

   Synonym: cor

3. (figuratively) soul, spirit, mind, understanding

   Synonym: animus

   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 6.509:

     ‘ō nimium facilēs, ō tōtō pectore captae!’

     “O too easy [souls]! O [those] with every spirit having been captured!”
     (That is to say, easy to deceive and entirely believing. Several figurative translations are possible. The poetic voice is that of Juno (mythology).)

4. person, individual (as a being of passion)

   Synonyms: persona, caput

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• pectō
• sinus

• “pectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pectus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the water is up to, is above, the chest: aqua pectus aequat, superat
    
  • to take a thing to heart: demittere aliquid in pectus or in pectus animumque suum
    
  • what he said made a deep impression on..: hoc verbum alte descendit in pectus alicuius
    
  • to love some one very dearly, with all one's heart: aliquem toto pectore, ut dicitur, amare (Leg. 18. 49)
    
  • to inspire with religious feeling, with the fear of God: imbuere (vid. sect. VII. 7, note imbuere...) pectora religione
    
  • to plunge one's sword in some one's breast: gladium alicui in pectus infigere
    
  • to transfix, pierce a man's breast with one's sword: gladio aliquem per pectus transfigere (Liv. 2. 46)
    
• pectus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016