bruchus

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βροῦκος~βροῦχος (broûkos~broûkhos).

Pronunciation

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 locusts and grasshoppers without number, Latin Psalter, Ps 104:34)
  2. (New Latin) a bean weevil

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative brūchus brūchī
genitive brūchī brūchōrum
dative brūchō brūchīs
accusative brūchum brūchōs
ablative brūchō brūchīs
vocative brūche brūchī

Descendants

  • Galician: burgo
  • 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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