ruscum
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown; Late Latin forms possibly contaminated by *brūcus (“heather”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈruːs.kum/, [ˈruːs̠kʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈrus.kum/, [ˈruskum]
Noun
[edit]rūscum n (genitive rūscī); second declension[2][3][4][5][6]
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | rūscum | rūsca |
| genitive | rūscī | rūscōrum |
| dative | rūscō | rūscīs |
| accusative | rūscum | rūsca |
| ablative | rūscō | rūscīs |
| vocative | rūscum | rūsca |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: rusco
- Istriot: rusca
- Italian: rusco
- Neapolitan: rusco
- Occitan: brusc m, brusca f
- → French: brusc
- Portuguese: rusco
- Spanish: rusco, brusco
- Venetan: rusco, rosco
- → Albanian: rushk
- → Greek: μπρούσκος (broúskos)
- →? Proto-West Germanic: *ruskijā (see there for further descendants)
References
[edit]- ^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page uroica
- ^ “ruscum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ "ruscum", 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)
- ^ ruscum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Genaust, Helmut (1996) “Rúscus”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN
- ^ Hubschmid, Johannes (1968) Bezeichnungen für Erika und andere Sträucher, Gestrüpp und Auswüchse (Vox Romanica)[1] (in German), volume 27, , page 337 seqq.
- ^ A. J., Greimas (1968) “broce, broisse”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancien français: jusqu’au milieu du XIVᵉ siècle (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse, →ISBN