labrusca
English
Etymology
Latin labrusca
Noun
labrusca (plural labruscas)
- The fox grape (Vitis labrusca).
Latin
Etymology
Possibly sharing a Proto-Indo-European origin with Sanskrit लिबुजा (libujā, “creeper”).
Noun
lābrusca f (genitive lābruscae); first declension
- wild vine (Vitis labrusca)
Inflection
First declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | lābrusca | lābruscae |
| Genitive | lābruscae | lābruscārum |
| Dative | lābruscae | lābruscīs |
| Accusative | lābruscam | lābruscās |
| Ablative | lābruscā | lābruscīs |
| Vocative | lābrusca | lābruscae |
Descendants
- → Albanian: larushkë, lërushkë
- Dalmatian: abastrain
- French: lambris, lambrisser
- Italian: lambrusca, lambrusco
- → Portuguese: labrusca
- Romanian: lăuruscă
- → Spanish: labrusca
References
- labrusca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- labrusca in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- labrusca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Éditions Klincksieck (1907: Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes, Volumes 31-32