Brocchus

== Latin == === Etymology === From brocchus, variant of broccus (“buck-toothed person”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbrɔk.kʰʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbrɔk.kus] === Proper noun === Brocchus m sg (genitive Brocchī); second declension a cognomen of the gentes Annaea, Furia, Sertoria, and others. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. === References === “Brocchus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.