pituita

From Latin pītuīta (“mucus, phlegm”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɪˈtjuːɪtə/

pituita (uncountable)

1. (medicine, now only historical) Phlegm; mucus.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):

     , Book I (New York 2001 edition), p.148:

     Pituita, or phlegm, is a cold and moist humour, begotten of the colder part of the chylus […]

Unknown[1]. Have been related to *peyH- (“fat”) but it's not convincing.

pītuīta f (genitive pītuītae); first declension

1. mucus, phlegm
2. rheum, head cold

First declension.

• ⇒ Medieval Latin: pipita
  • Italian: pipita
  • Old Portuguese: [Term?]
    • Galician: pebida
    • Portuguese: pevide
  • → Middle Dutch: pip
    • Dutch: pip
    • → Middle English: pippe
      • English: pip
  • → Old High German: pfiffiz
    • Alemannic German: Pfiffi

• pituita in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pituita in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pituita in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pituita in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette