boscus

Latin

Alternative forms

busca f

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔs.kʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔs.kus]

Noun

boscus m (genitive boscī); second declension

(Medieval Latin) wood, woodland

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	boscus	boscī
genitive	boscī	boscōrum
dative	boscō	boscīs
accusative	boscum	boscōs
ablative	boscō	boscīs
vocative	bosce	boscī

Descendants

Gallo-Italian:
- Piedmontese: bosch
Iberian:
- Aragonese: bosque
- Old Galician-Portuguese: bosco
  - Galician: bosque
  - Portuguese: bosque
- Spanish: bosque
  - Chavacano: bosque
  - → English: bosque
East Iberian:
- Old Catalan: bosc
  - Catalan: bosc
- Old Occitan: bosc, boiso, boscu
  - Occitan:
    - Gascon: bòsc (Aranais)
    - Languedocien: bòsc
    - Provençal: bos (Mistralienne), boasc (Niçois), bòsc (Occitane)
    - Vivaro-Alpin: bòsc
Italo-Dalmatian:
- Corsican: boscu
- Dalmatian: buasc
- Italian: bosco
  - → Maltese: bosk
- Neapolitan: vuosco
- Sicilian: voscu
Eastern Romance:
- Romanian: boschet
Oïl:
- Old French: bois, bosc
  - Bourguignon: boo
  - Bourbonnais-Berrichon: bou
  - Middle French: bois, boys, boiz
    - French: bois
      - Haitian Creole: bwa
  - Gallo: boéz, (Ille, Vilaine) boueil
  - Norman: bouais (Jersiais), bwee (Sercquiais)
  - Orléanais: boué (Solognot)
  - Picard: bôs (Athois), bos (Ch'ti)
  - Walloon: bos (Charleroi), bwès (Forrières, Liégeois)
  - ⇒ Old French: bousquet, bochet, bouquet
    - Middle French: bouquet, boucquet
      - French: bouquet
        → English: bouquet
    - Gallo: bóqèt
    - Norman: boûquet
    - Picard: bouqueû, bouqueut
    - Walloon: boukèt
Rhaetian:
- Friulian: bosc
Southern:
- Sardinian: buscu
⇒ Latin: *busca
- Old French: busche
  - Middle French: busche
    - French: bûche
- Anglo-Latin: bosca
  - → Middle English: bosk
    - English: bosk

See also