burricus

Latin

Etymology

From burrus (“red, reddish-brown”). Possibly a contamination of an original form būricus (“small horse”) with a long vowel and a single -r-.[1][2]

Noun

burricus m (genitive burricī); second declension

  1. small horse

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative burricus burricī
Genitive burricī burricōrum
Dative burricō burricīs
Accusative burricum burricōs
Ablative burricō burricīs
Vocative burrice burricī

Descendants

Apparently from a form *burrīcus,[3] *burriccus[4] or *burrīccus[1] with penultimate stress:

  • Galician: burrico, ⇒ burro
  • Portuguese: burrico, ⇒ burro
  • Spanish: borrico, ⇒ burro

References
  1. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “būricus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 1: A–B, page 636
  2. “burricus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
  3. “borrico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
  4. García Gallarín, Consuelo (1998) “Antropónimos de origen zoonímico: *ibicerru. *Tener+ariu, *burr+ecus, *cordarius. Burricus>*burriccus, asinus”, in Revista de filología románica, volume 15, page 301

Further reading
  • “burricus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • burricus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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