burricus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From burrus (“red, reddish-brown”). Possibly a contamination of an original form būricus (“small horse”) with a long vowel and a single -r-.[1][2]
Noun
[edit]burricus m (genitive burricī); second declension
- small horse
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | burricus | burricī |
| genitive | burricī | burricōrum |
| dative | burricō | burricīs |
| accusative | burricum | burricōs |
| ablative | burricō | burricīs |
| vocative | burrice | burricī |
Descendants
[edit]Apparently from a form *burrīcus,[3] *burriccus[4] or *burrīccus[1] with penultimate stress:
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “būricus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 1: A–B, page 636
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “burricus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- ^ “borrico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- ^ García Gallarín, Consuelo (1998) “Antropónimos de origen zoonímico: *ibicerru. *Tener+ariu, *burr+ecus, *cordarius. Burricus>*burriccus, asinus”, in Revista de filología románica, volume 15, page 301
Further reading
[edit]- “burricus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- burricus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.