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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
1Latinpecūlium—
2LatinpecusA group of large domestic animals: a herd of...
3Proto-Italic*pekos—
Every word from Proto-Italic *pekos →