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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βόκχος (Bókkhos), itself from a Berber name, maybe Central Atlas Tamazight ⵡⴽⴽⵓⵙ (wkkus) or from Tuareg ⴰⵡⵇⵇⴰⵙ (aweqqas).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bocchus m sg (genitive Bocchī); second declension
- A king of Mauritania and father-in-law of Jugurtha
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
Descendants
References
- Bocchus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Bocchus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press