Where does “peculio” come from?

peculio (Spanish) comes from Latin pecūlium, from Latin pecus, from Proto-Italic *pekos.

peculio (Spanish): savings, scraps, nest egg

Definitions

  1. savings, scraps, nest egg

Ancestry of “peculio”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinpecūliumprivate property (originally in the form of cattle, but later in the form of savings)
2LatinpecusA group of large domestic animals: a herd of...
3Proto-Italic*pekos—
Every word from Proto-Italic *pekos →Every word from Latin pecus →Every word from Latin pecūlium →
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