bonasus

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English

Noun

bonasus (plural not attested)

  1. A bonnacon.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βόνᾱσος (bónāsos, “european bison”).

Pronunciation

Noun

bonāsus m (genitive bonāsī); second declension

  1. A breed of bull in Poeonia (in Macedonia), with the hair of a horse, and with horns unfit for fighting.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative bonāsus bonāsī
genitive bonāsī bonāsōrum
dative bonāsō bonāsīs
accusative bonāsum bonāsōs
ablative bonāsō bonāsīs
vocative bonāse bonāsī

Descendants

References

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