broccus
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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Possibly borrowed from Gaulish *brokkos, from Proto-Celtic *brokkos (“badger”).[1][2][3]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈbrok.kus/, [ˈbrɔkːʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbrok.kus/, [ˈbrɔkːus]
Noun
broccus m (genitive broccī); second declension
- A person having projecting teeth, a buck-toothed person
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | broccus | broccī |
Genitive | broccī | broccōrum |
Dative | broccō | broccīs |
Accusative | broccum | broccōs |
Ablative | broccō | broccīs |
Vocative | brocce | broccī |
Derived terms
Adjective
broccus (feminine brocca, neuter broccum); first/second-declension adjective
- having projecting teeth, buck-toothed
- c. 2C. BC, Plautus, Sitellitergus (very short fragment):
- Bea mihi insignitos pueros pariat postea aut varum aut valgum aut compernem aut paetum aut brocchum filium.
- Well, remarkable boys she'd bear me after that, maybe a bow-legged, or knock-kneed, or thunder-thighed, or squint-eyed or buck-toothed kid.
- Bea mihi insignitos pueros pariat postea aut varum aut valgum aut compernem aut paetum aut brocchum filium.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | broccus | brocca | broccum | broccī | broccae | brocca | |
Genitive | broccī | broccae | broccī | broccōrum | broccārum | broccōrum | |
Dative | broccō | broccō | broccīs | ||||
Accusative | broccum | broccam | broccum | broccōs | broccās | brocca | |
Ablative | broccō | broccā | broccō | broccīs | |||
Vocative | brocce | brocca | broccum | broccī | broccae | brocca |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Catalan: broc, broca
- French: broche
- → Spanish: broche
- Galician: broco, broca; broche (from French)
- Italian: brocco
References
- ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “broccus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 116
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*brokko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 80
- ^ “broche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- broccus 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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