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
- savings, scraps, nest egg
Ancestry of “peculio”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | pecūlium | — |
| 2 | Latin | pecus | A group of large domestic animals: a herd of... |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | *pekos | — |