bruchus
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βροῦκος~βροῦχος (broûkos~broûkhos).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbruː.kʰus/, [ˈbruːkʰʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbru.kus/, [ˈbruːkus]
Noun edit
brūchus m (genitive brūchī); second declension
- 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)
- (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
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