bruchus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βροῦκος (broûkos) / βροῦχος (broûkhos), a Pre-Greek word.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbruː.kʰus/, [ˈbruː.kʰʊs]

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 locust and grasshoper without number, Latin Psalter, Ps 104:34)
  1. (New Latin) a bean weevil

Declension

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative brūchus brūchī
Genitive brūchī brūchōrum
Dative brūchō brūchīs
Accusative brūchum brūchōs
Ablative brūchō brūchīs
Vocative brūche brūchī

Descendants
  • 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
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