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Porcorum

Porcorum is a Latin term that functions as the genitive plural of porcus, meaning "of the pigs" or "the pigs’." In classical and medieval Latin texts, porcorum appears in contexts describing ownership or association with pigs, such as farm inventories, property records, and agricultural treatises. The form is typically used after a noun in possessive constructions, for example villa porcorum, meaning “the pigs’ villa.”

Beyond philology, porcorum is occasionally encountered as a proper name in fiction, fantasy world-building, or branding

Etymology and related forms: porcus means "pig," and -orum is the genitive plural suffix, yielding porcorum as

In summary, porcorum primarily appears as a Latin grammatical form denoting possession by pigs, with occasional

where
Latin-sounding
terms
are
chosen
for
stylistic
reasons.
These
uses
are
not
tied
to
a
single
real-world
place
or
institution
and
generally
appear
in
non-canonical
or
creative
works.
"of
the
pigs."
Related
forms
include
porci
(nominative
plural)
and
the
other
inflected
forms
of
porcus
found
throughout
Latin
grammar.
modern
usage
as
a
fictional
or
stylistic
proper
name
in
non-scholarly
contexts.
Related
topics
include
porcus,
Latin
grammar,
and
the
study
of
Latin
inscriptions
and
agricultural
terminology
in
historical
sources.