bonasus

English

Noun

bonasus (plural not attested)

1. A bonnacon.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βόνᾱσος (bónāsos, “european bison”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /boˈnaː.sus/, [bɔˈnäːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /boˈna.sus/, [boˈnäːs̬us]

Noun

bonāsus m (genitive bonāsī); second declension

1. A breed of bull in Poeonia (in Macedonia), with the hair of a horse, and with horns unfit for fighting.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	bonāsus	bonāsī
genitive	bonāsī	bonāsōrum
dative	bonāsō	bonāsīs
accusative	bonāsum	bonāsōs
ablative	bonāsō	bonāsīs
vocative	bonāse	bonāsī

Descendants

• Translingual: Bison bonasus, Rhinoptera bonasus, Bos bonasus

References

• “bonasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bonasus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.