albucus

== Latin == === Etymology === albus (“white”) +‎ -ūcus, a suffix common to several other Latin phytonyms, and a semantic connection found in other languages for the same plant, e.g. Arabic بَرْوَق (barwaq) from Aramaic ברוק (bārōq, “shiny-yellowish”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aɫˈbuː.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [alˈbuː.kus] === Noun === albūcus m (genitive albūcī); second declension asphodel bulb asphodel plant ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. === References === “albucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press