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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βούπρηστις (boúprēstis), from βοῦς (boûs, “cow”) + πρήθω (prḗthō, “I burn, inflame, inflate”).
Pronunciation
Noun
būprēstis f (genitive būprēstis); third declension
- a beetle, which being eaten with the grass caused a swelling in cattle
- a kind of plant, perhaps Bupleurum rotundifolium, thought by some to be an aphrodisiac
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Descendants
References
- “buprestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- buprestis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.