bruchus

See also: Bruchus

Latin

Alternative forms

• brūcus

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbruː.kʰʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbruː.kus]

Noun

brūchus m (genitive brūchī); second declension

1. 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)

2. (New Latin) a bean weevil

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	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.