Where does “pecorino” come from?

pecorino (Italian) comes from Italian pecora, from Latin pecora, from Latin pecū, from Proto-Indo-European peḱu- — sheep; cattle; livestock, domestic animals.

pecorino (Italian): sheep; sheeplike, sheepish; pecorino

Definitions

  1. sheep; sheeplike, sheepish; pecorino

Ancestry of “pecorino”, step by step

pecorino traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian pecora

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianpecorasheep; ewe; sheep, milksop
2Latinpecoranominative plural of pecus; accusative plural of...
3Latinpecūcattle
4Proto-Indo-Europeanpeḱu-sheep; cattle; livestock, domestic animals

via Late Latin pecorīnus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Late Latinpecorīnus

Words derived from “pecorino

Every word from Proto-Indo-European peḱu-