bruchus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === brūcus === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek βροῦκος~βροῦχος (broûkos~broûkhos). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbruː.kʰʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbruː.kus] === Noun === brūchus m (genitive brūchī); second declension a kind of wingless locust or grasshopper as in: 'Dixit, et venit locústa, et bruchus, cuius non erat numerus (He spoke and there came locusts and grasshoppers without number, Latin Psalter, Ps 104:34) (New Latin) a bean weevil ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Galician: burgo Italian: bruco Portuguese: bruco Translingual: Bruchus === References === “bruchus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “bruchus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.