ursus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *orsos (perhaps from earlier *orssos), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos (“bear”); Proto-Italic *o- is unexpected, and may have arisen as a taboo distortion. For the outcome -s- from original *-tḱ-, compare sinō. Doublet of Arctos. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈʊr.sʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈur.sus] === Noun === ursus m (genitive ursī); second declension a bear ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ursa ursīna ursīnus ==== Descendants ==== === References === “ursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “ursus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “ursus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “ursus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray