buprestis

== Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek βούπρηστις (boúprēstis), from βοῦς (boûs, “cow”) +‎ πρήθω (prḗthō, “to burn, inflame, inflate”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [buːˈpreːs.tɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [buˈprɛs.tis] === Noun === būprēstis f (genitive būprēstis); third declension a beetle, which being eaten with the grass caused a swelling in cattle a kind of plant, perhaps Bupleurum rotundifolium, thought by some to be an aphrodisiac ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem). ==== Descendants ==== Translingual: Buprestis === References === “buprestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “buprestis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.