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Latin
Etymology
An Oscan loanword, from Proto-Italic *gʷrūtos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”). Cognate with Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús), Persian گران (gerân) and Sanskrit गुरु (gurú). See also Latin gravis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
brūtus (feminine brūta, neuter brūtum); first/second-declension adjective
- dull, stupid, insensible, unreasonable, irrational
- Synonyms: fatuus, stupidus, stultus, īnsipiēns, āmēns, dēmēns
- Antonyms: callidus, prūdēns, sapiēns, sollers
- (rare) heavy, unwieldy
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “brūtus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 76
Further reading
- “1. brūtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “brutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "brutus", 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)
- 1 brūtus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “229/3”
- “brutus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “brutus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “brute”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “brūtus¹” on page 243/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “brutus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 107/1