brugaria

Latin

Alternative forms

• brūgeria, brūguera
• brūārium, brūeria, brūāria, brūera, brūieria, broiāria

Etymology

From brūcus +‎ -āria, showing lenition of the intervocalic /k/. Attested from 891 in France.

Noun

brūgāria f (genitive brūgāriae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. heath
2. heather
3. heathland

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	brūgāria	brūgāriae
Genitive	brūgāriae	brūgāriārum
Dative	brūgāriae	brūgāriīs
Accusative	brūgāriam	brūgāriās
Ablative	brūgāriā	brūgāriīs
Vocative	brūgāria	brūgāriae

Descendants

• Western Romance of N. Italy:
  • Ligurian: brughëa, brughêa
  • Lombard: brughera
  • Piedmontese: bruëra
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: bruguera
  • Franco-Provençal: bruére, bruviére
  • Old French: bruiere
    • French: bruyère
    • Norman: brüethe, bruëthe
  • Occitan: bruguièra, brujeira
    • → Italian: brughiera

References

• bruaria - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
• bruarium 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)
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “brūcus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 1: A–B, page 558