bruchus

Latin

Alternative forms

brūcus

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbruː.kʰus/, [ˈbruːkʰʊs̠]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbru.kus/, [ˈbruːkus]

Noun

brūchus m (genitive brūchī); second declension

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)
(New Latin) a bean weevil

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	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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