bucolicus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === būcolicos === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek βουκολικός (boukolikós, “rustic, pastoral; meter used by pastoral poets”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [buːˈkɔ.lɪ.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [buˈkɔː.li.kus] === Adjective === būcolicus (feminine būcolica, neuter būcolicum); first/second-declension adjective of or pertaining to shepherds bucolic ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Related terms ==== būcula ==== Descendants ==== → English: bucolic → French: bucolique → Italian: bucolico → Portuguese: bucólico → Sicilian: bucòlicu → Spanish: bucólico === References === “bucolicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “bucolicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “bucolicus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.