beryllus

Latin

Alternative forms

• bērillus, berullus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βήρυλλος (bḗrullos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /beːˈryl.lus/, [beːˈrʏlːʲʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /beˈril.lus/, [beˈrilːus]

Noun

bēryllus m (genitive bēryllī); second declension

1. beryl

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	bēryllus	bēryllī
genitive	bēryllī	bēryllōrum
dative	bēryllō	bēryllīs
accusative	bēryllum	bēryllōs
ablative	bēryllō	bēryllīs
vocative	bērylle	bēryllī

Derived terms

• beryllus aeroides

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: berillo, ⇒ brillare (see there for further descendants)
  • Sicilian: biriḍḍu, birillu
• Gallo-Italic:
  • ⇒ Romagnol: brilêr
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: beril, ⇒ bericles
    • French: béryl, ⇒ besicles
      • → Polish: beryl
    • → Middle English: beryl, beril, berill, berille, beralle, berel, berell, berelle, berylle, birall, birell, birrall, brill, burel, burell, byrall, byralle, byrell, byryl (Late Middle English)
      • English: beryl
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Portuguese: berilo
  • Spanish: berilo
• Borrowings:
  • → Middle Dutch: beril
    • Dutch: beril, bril
      • Afrikaans: bril
      • → Papiamentu: brel
    • → West Frisian: bril
  • → Middle High German: berille, brille
    • German: Brille
      • → Czech: brýle
      • → Latvian: brille, Latvian: brilles
      • → Polish: bryle
    • Hunsrik: Brill
  • → Middle Low German: berille, barille
    • German Low German: brille
      • → Danish: brille
      • → Norwegian Bokmål: brille
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: brille
      • → Swedish: brillor
  • → Russian: берилл (berill)

References

• “beryllus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• beryllus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “beryllus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “beryllus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray