buprestis

From Ancient Greek βούπρηστις (boúprēstis), from βοῦς (boûs, “cow”) +‎ πρήθω (prḗthō, “I burn, inflame, inflate”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [buːˈpreːs.tɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [buˈprɛs.t̪is]

būprēstis f (genitive būprēstis); third declension

1. a beetle, which being eaten with the grass caused a swelling in cattle
2. a kind of plant, perhaps Bupleurum rotundifolium, thought by some to be an aphrodisiac

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• Translingual: Buprestis

• “buprestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• buprestis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.