broccus

Latin

Possibly borrowed from Gaulish *brokkos, from Proto-Celtic *brokkos (“badger”).^[1]^[2]^[3]

broccus m (genitive broccī); second declension

broccus (feminine brocca, neuter broccum); first/second-declension adjective

having projecting teeth, buck-toothed
- c. 2C. BC, Plautus, Sitellitergus (very short fragment):
  Bea mihi insignitos pueros pariat postea aut varum aut valgum aut compernem aut paetum aut brocchum filium.
  Well, remarkable boys she'd bear me after that, maybe a bow-legged, or knock-kneed, or thunder-thighed, or squint-eyed or buck-toothed kid.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	broccus	brocca	broccum	broccī	broccae	brocca
Genitive	broccī	broccae	broccī	broccōrum	broccārum	broccōrum
Dative	broccō	broccae	broccō	broccīs
Accusative	broccum	broccam	broccum	broccōs	broccās	brocca
Ablative	broccō	broccā	broccō	broccīs
Vocative	brocce	brocca	broccum	broccī	broccae	brocca

^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “broccus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 116
^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*brokko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 80
^ “broche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

broccus 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)