bruchus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βροῦκος~βροῦχος (broûkos~broûkhos).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbruː.kʰʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbruː.kus]
Noun
brūchus m (genitive brūchī); second declension
- 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)
- (New Latin) a bean weevil
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | brūchus | brūchī |
| genitive | brūchī | brūchōrum |
| dative | brūchō | brūchīs |
| accusative | brūchum | brūchōs |
| ablative | brūchō | brūchīs |
| vocative | brūche | brūchī |
Descendants
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.