bruscum

== Latin == === Etymology === Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell, blow, inflate”). Compare English breast and Ancient Greek βρύω (brúō, “to burst”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbrʊs.kũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbrus.kum] === Noun === bruscum n (genitive bruscī); second declension (botany) An excrescence on the maple ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== Italian: brusco, ⇒ rusco === References === “bruscum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “bruscum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.