Porcus
/ˈpɔr.kus/noun
Latin for a pig or hog.
Did you know?Latin *porcus* is the ancestor of English *pork* and a whole family of Romance words for pig, showing how a farm animal name can travel through empires.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*porkos
“Young pig or piglet”
Old Italic
Italic
*porkos
“Pig”
Latin
Latin
porcus
“Pig, hog”
Old French
French
porc
“Pig, pork”
Middle English
English
pork
“The flesh of a pig”