pullinus

From pullus (“young animal; foal; chick”) + -īnus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pʊlˈliː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pulˈliː.nus]

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

1. of or belonging to young animals
2. (with dentēs) the first teeth of a colt, milk teeth
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, 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.

First/second-declension adjective.

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