bonasus
English edit
Noun edit
bonasus (plural not attested)
- A bonnacon.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βόνᾱσος (bónāsos, “european bison”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /boˈnaː.sus/, [bɔˈnäːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /boˈna.sus/, [boˈnäːs̬us]
Noun edit
bonāsus m (genitive bonāsī); second declension
- A breed of bull in Poeonia (in Macedonia), with the hair of a horse, and with horns unfit for fighting.
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | bonāsus | bonāsī |
Genitive | bonāsī | bonāsōrum |
Dative | bonāsō | bonāsīs |
Accusative | bonāsum | bonāsōs |
Ablative | bonāsō | bonāsīs |
Vocative | bonāse | bonāsī |
Descendants edit
- Translingual: Bison bonasus, Rhinoptera bonasus, Bos bonasus
References edit
- “bonasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- bonasus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette