bruscum

Latin

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell, blow, inflate”).[1] Compare English breast and Ancient Greek βρύω (brúō, “to burst”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbrus.kum/, [ˈbrʊs̠kʊ̃ˑ]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbrus.kum/, [ˈbruskum]

Noun

bruscum n (genitive bruscī); second declension

(botany) An excrescence on the maple

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bruscum	brusca
Genitive	bruscī	bruscōrum
Dative	bruscō	bruscīs
Accusative	bruscum	brusca
Ablative	bruscō	bruscīs
Vocative	bruscum	brusca

References

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

Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “bruscum”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 117

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