Borrowed from Late Latin birrus (“a kind of cloak”), from Gaulish *birros, from Proto-Celtic *birros (“short”).
birrus (plural birruses)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “birrus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Borrowed from Gaulish *birros, from Proto-Celtic *birros (“short”).
birrus m (genitive birrī); second declension
Second-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | birrus | birrī |
genitive | birrī | birrōrum |
dative | birrō | birrīs |
accusative | birrum | birrōs |
ablative | birrō | birrīs |
vocative | birre | birrī |