bruscum

Latin

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell, blow, inflate”)[1]. Compare English breast and Ancient Greek βρύω (brúō, “to burst”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbrus.kum/, [ˈbrʊs.kũ]

Noun

bruscum n (genitive bruscī); second declension

  1. (botany) An excrescence on the maple

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bruscum brusca
Genitive bruscī bruscōrum
Dative bruscō bruscīs
Accusative bruscum brusca
Ablative bruscō bruscīs
Vocative bruscum brusca

References
  • bruscum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • bruscum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  1. Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938), “bruscum”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 117
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