βροῦκος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- βρεῦκος (breûkos)
- βροῦκα (broûka)
- βροῦχος (broûkhos)
- βρύκος (brúkos)
Etymology
According to Beekes, it's clearly a Pre-Greek word, due to the vocalic variations. The form βρύκος (brúkos) was compared with βρύκω (brúkō, “to eat greedily”), but the agreement may be secondary.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /brôː.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbru.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβru.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvru.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvru.kos/
Noun
βροῦκος • (broûkos) m (genitive βρούκου); second declension
- A locust, or its wingless larva
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ βροῦκος; τοῦ βρούκου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ βροῦκος ho broûkos | τὼ βρούκω tṑ broúkō | οἱ βροῦκοι hoi broûkoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βρούκου toû broúkou | τοῖν βρούκοιν toîn broúkoin | τῶν βρούκων tôn broúkōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βρούκῳ tôi broúkōi | τοῖν βρούκοιν toîn broúkoin | τοῖς βρούκοις toîs broúkois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν βροῦκον tòn broûkon | τὼ βρούκω tṑ broúkō | τοὺς βρούκους toùs broúkous | ||||||||||
Vocative | βροῦκε broûke | βρούκω broúkō | βροῦκοι broûkoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Latin: bruchus
- → Italian: bruco
Further reading
- βροῦκος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βροῦκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βροῦκος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN