Bocchus

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βόκχος (Bókkhos), itself from a Berber name, maybe Central Atlas Tamazight ⵡⴽⴽⵓⵙ (wkkus) or from Tuareg ⴰⵡⵇⵇⴰⵙ (aweqqas). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbɔk.kʰʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbɔk.kus] === Proper noun === Bocchus m sg (genitive Bocchī); second declension A king of Mauritania and father-in-law of Jugurtha ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. ==== Descendants ==== English: Bocchus Italian: Bocco === References === “Bocchus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “Bocchus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press