brucus

Latin

Etymology 1

From Gaulish *wroika, from Proto-Celtic *wroikos. Documented once in a late gloss. Parallel borrowing to Vulgar Latin *broccium~*verocium.

Noun

brūcus m (genitive brūcī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. heather

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	brūcus	brūcī
genitive	brūcī	brūcōrum
dative	brūcō	brūcīs
accusative	brūcum	brūcōs
ablative	brūcō	brūcīs
vocative	brūce	brūcī

Derived terms

• brūgāria

Descendants

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: bruco
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: bruc
  • Occitan: bruc
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: brugo
• Western Romance of N. Italy:
  • Ladino: bruc
  • Ligurian: brûgo, brugo
  • Lombard: brugh
  • Piedmontese: bru

Forms influenced by brŏccus:

• Aragonese: brueco
• Gascon: bròc
• Lombard: brögh
• Romansch: brutgh, bruoch

References

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “brezo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 662

Etymology 2

Noun

brūcus m (genitive brūcī); second declension

1. Alternative form of brūchus (“a kind of wingless locust”)

References

• brucus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)