Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βροῦκος~βροῦχος (broûkos~broûkhos).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

brūchus m (genitive brūchī); second declension

  1. a kind of wingless locust or grasshopper as in:
    'Dixit, et venit locústa, et bruchus, cuius non erat numerus (He spoke and there came locusts and grasshoppers without number, Latin Psalter, Ps 104:34)
  2. (New Latin) a bean weevil

Declension edit

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative brūchus brūchī
Genitive brūchī brūchōrum
Dative brūchō brūchīs
Accusative brūchum brūchōs
Ablative brūchō brūchīs
Vocative brūche brūchī

Descendants edit

  • Galician: burgo
  • Italian: bruco
  • Portuguese: bruco
  • Translingual: Bruchus

References edit

  • bruchus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • bruchus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette