albucus

Latin

Etymology

albus (“white”) +‎ -ūcus, a suffix common to several other Latin phytonyms, and a semantic connection found in other languages for the same plant, e.g. Arabic بَرْوَق (barwaq) from Aramaic ברוק (bārōq, “shiny-yellowish”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /alˈbuː.kus/, [äɫ̪ˈbuːkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /alˈbu.kus/, [älˈbuːkus]

Noun

albūcus m (genitive albūcī); second declension

1. asphodel bulb
2. asphodel plant

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	albūcus	albūcī
genitive	albūcī	albūcōrum
dative	albūcō	albūcīs
accusative	albūcum	albūcōs
ablative	albūcō	albūcīs
vocative	albūce	albūcī

References

• “albucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press