ursus

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See also: Ursus

Latin

ursus (a bear)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *orssos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos (“bear”). The initial u- is unexpected, and may have arisen as a taboo distortion. For the outcome s of original *tḱ compare sinō.

Pronunciation

Noun

ursus m (genitive ursī); second declension

  1. a bear

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ursus ursī
Genitive ursī ursōrum
Dative ursō ursīs
Accusative ursum ursōs
Ablative ursō ursīs
Vocative urse ursī

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “ursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ursus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “ursus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “ursus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 645
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