brutus

== Latin == === Etymology === An Oscan loanword, from Proto-Italic *gʷrūtos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”). Cognate with Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús), Persian گران (gerân) and Sanskrit गुरु (gurú). See also Latin gravis. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbruː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbruː.tus] === Adjective === brūtus (feminine brūta, neuter brūtum); first/second-declension adjective dull, stupid, insensible, unreasonable, irrational Synonyms: fatuus, stupidus, stultus, īnsipiēns, āmēns, dēmēns Antonyms: callidus, prūdēns, sapiēns, sollers (rare) heavy, unwieldy ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== brūtālis brūtescō brūtum Brūtus ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: brut Emilian: brótt Dalmatian: brot → Old Irish: brúit Irish: brúid Scottish Gaelic: brùid Istriot: bruto Italian: brutto, bruto → Dutch: bruto→ Indonesian: bruto Occitan: brut Old French: brut Middle French: brut French: brut→ English: brut→ German: brut→ Turkish: brüt → English: brute → Middle Dutch: bruut Dutch: bruutAfrikaans: bruut Piedmontese: brüt → Old Galician-Portuguese: bruto (learned) Galician: bruto Portuguese: bruto Romanian: brut Spanish: bruto === References === === Further reading === “1. brūtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “brutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "brutus", 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) “1 brūtus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “229/3” “brutus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “brutus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “brute”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “brūtus¹” on page 243/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82) Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “brutus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 107/1