brucus

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === From Gaulish *wroika, from Proto-Celtic *wroikos. Documented once in a late gloss. Doublet of *broccium. ==== Noun ==== brūcus m (genitive brūcī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin) heather ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun. ===== Derived terms ===== brūgāria ===== Descendants ===== Forms influenced by brŏccus: ===== References ===== Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “brezo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 662 === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== brūcus m (genitive brūcī); second declension alternative form of brūchus (“a kind of wingless locust”) ==== References ==== "brucus", 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)