bonasus
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== English ==
=== Noun ===
bonasus (plural not attested)
A bonnacon.
== Latin ==
=== Etymology ===
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βόνᾱσος (bónāsos, “european bison”).
=== Pronunciation ===
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [bɔˈnaː.sʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [boˈnaː.s̬us]
=== Noun ===
bonāsus m (genitive bonāsī); second declension
A breed of bull in Poeonia (in Macedonia), with the hair of a horse, and with horns unfit for fighting.
==== Declension ====
Second-declension noun.
==== Descendants ====
Translingual: Bison bonasus, Rhinoptera bonasus, Bos bonasus
=== References ===
“bonasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“bonasus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.