barrus

== Latin == === Etymology === Probably loaned from an eastern language, such as Indo-Aryan, by way of Iranian; compare Sanskrit वारु (vāru, “royal elephant”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbar.rʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbar.rus] === Noun === barrus m (genitive barrī); second declension An elephant. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== elephāns elephās Lūca bōs === References === “barrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "barrus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)