brucus

Latin

Etymology 1

From Gaulish *wroika, from Proto-Celtic *wroikos. Documented once in a late gloss.[1] Parallel borrowing to Vulgar Latin *broccium~*verocium.

Noun

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

heather

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	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. Pascual (1984) “brezo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 662

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “brūcus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 1: A–B, page 558

Noun

brūcus m (genitive brūcī); second declension

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)

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