barrus
Latin
editEtymology
editProbably loaned from an eastern language, such as Indo-Aryan, by way of Iranian; compare Sanskrit वारु (vāru, “royal elephant”).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈbar.rus/, [ˈbärːʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbar.rus/, [ˈbärːus]
Noun
editbarrus m (genitive barrī); second declension
- An elephant.
Declension
editSecond-declension noun.
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editReferences
edit- “barrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- barrus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- ^ Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles, May 26-28, 2000. (2001). United States: Institute for the Study of Man, p. 148