bruchus

Latin

Alternative forms

• brūcus

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbruː.kʰus/, [ˈbruːkʰʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbru.kus/, [ˈbruːkus]

Noun

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

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

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

References

• “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.