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Latin
Etymology
From brūcus + -āria, showing lenition of the intervocalic /k/. Attested from 891 in France.[1]
Noun
brūgāria f (genitive brūgāriae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)
- heath
- heather
- heathland
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
- Western Romance of N. Italy:
- Gallo-Romance:
References
- “bruaria”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- bruarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “brūcus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 1: A–B, page 558