hircus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === ircus === Etymology === Unknown. As with other Indo-European words for “goat”, a reliable Proto-Indo-European etymon cannot be formally reconstructed. Nonetheless, compare Old High German irah, irh (“buck”), which Pokorny says is borrowed from the Latin. Possibly related to hirpus (“wolf”) and/or hirtus (“hairy, shaggy”); according to Pokorny, all three are from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”). Varro, in De Lingua Latina cites a Sabine form: fircus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈhɪr.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈir.kus] === Noun === hircus m (genitive hircī); second declension a buck, male goat (by extension) the rank smell of the armpits (figuratively) a filthy person ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== (male goat): caper ==== Coordinate terms ==== buccus caper capra haedus ==== Related terms ==== hircīnus Hircipēs hircōsus hirculus ==== Descendants ==== ⇒? Italian: lercio, ricchione Borrowings: → Catalan: erc ⇒ English: hircine, hircinous, hircose → Galician: hirco → Italian: irco → Sicilian: ircu → Spanish: hirco === References === “hircus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “hircus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "hircus", 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) “hircus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 286