brutus

An Oscan loanword, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷruh₂tós. Cognate with Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús), Persian گران‎ (gerân) and Sanskrit गुरु (gurú). See also Latin gravis.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbruː.tus/, [ˈbruː.tʊs]

brūtus (feminine brūta, neuter brūtum); first/second declension

1. heavy, unwieldy
2. dull, stupid, insensible, unreasonable, irrational

First/second declension.

• brūtālis
• brūtescō
• brūtum
• Brūtus

• 1. brūtus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• brutus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• brutus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• 1 brūtus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette: “229/3”
• brutus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• brutus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• brute in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “brūtus¹” on page 243/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “brutus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 107/1