porcus.
pig, hog; tame swine; glutton; (boar = verres);
Meaning & usage
a piglet, a young pig
a pig, hog
short for porcus marīnus (“sea-hog, mereswine, porpoise”)
glutton, pig
female genitalia
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young pig”). Cognate with Old English fearh (“piglet”). More at farrow. Compare also Ancient Greek πόρκος (pórkos).
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