brutus
See also: Brutus
Latin
Etymology
An Oscan loanword, from Proto-Italic *gʷrūtos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us. Cognate with Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús), Persian گران (gerân) and Sanskrit गुरु (gurú). See also Latin gravis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbruː.tus/, [ˈbruːt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbru.tus/, [ˈbruːt̪us]
Adjective
brūtus (feminine brūta, neuter brūtum); first/second-declension adjective
- heavy, unwieldy
- dull, stupid, insensible, unreasonable, irrational
- Synonyms: fatuus, stupidus, stultus, īnsipiēns, āmēns, dēmēns
- Antonyms: callidus, prūdēns, sapiēns, sollers
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | brūtus | brūta | brūtum | brūtī | brūtae | brūta | |
Genitive | brūtī | brūtae | brūtī | brūtōrum | brūtārum | brūtōrum | |
Dative | brūtō | brūtō | brūtīs | ||||
Accusative | brūtum | brūtam | brūtum | brūtōs | brūtās | brūta | |
Ablative | brūtō | brūtā | brūtō | brūtīs | |||
Vocative | brūte | brūta | brūtum | brūtī | brūtae | brūta |
Derived terms
- brūtālis
- brūtescō
- brūtum
- Brūtus
Descendants
- Catalan: brut
- Dalmatian: brot
- → Old Irish: brúit
- Irish: brúid
- Scottish Gaelic: brùid
- Galician: bruto, brután
- Italian: brutto, bruto
- → Dutch: bruto
- → Indonesian: bruto
- → Dutch: bruto
- Old French: brut
- Middle French: brut
- French: brut
- → English: brut
- → German: brut
- → Turkish: brüt
- → English: brute
- French: brut
- → Middle Dutch: bruut
- Dutch: bruut
- Afrikaans: bruut
- Dutch: bruut
- Middle French: brut
- Piedmontese: brüt
- Portuguese: bruto
- Romanian: brut
- Spanish: bruto
References
- “1. brūtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “brutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- brutus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- 1 brūtus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “229/3”
- “brutus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “brutus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- brute in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- “brūtus¹” on page 243/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “brutus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 107/1