ruscum

Latin

Alternative forms
  • rūscus, brūscus, brīscus f

Etymology

Unknown; Late Latin forms possibly contaminated by *brūcus (“heather”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

rūscum n (genitive rūscī); second declension[2][3][4][5][6]

  1. butcher's broom (Ruscus aculeatus)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rūscum rūsca
Genitive rūscī rūscōrum
Dative rūscō rūscīs
Accusative rūscum rūsca
Ablative rūscō rūscīs
Vocative rūscum rūsca

Derived terms
  • brīscō
  • *bruscia[7]
    • Old French: broce, broisse
    • Occitan:
      Provençal: brus m, brosse f
  • *rūsculus
    • Friulian: rùscli
    • Istriot: rùscolo
    • Sicilian: rúsculu
    • → Albanian: rrushkull
  • rūsceus

Descendants

References
  1. Delamarre, Xavier (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page uroica
  2. “ruscum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  3. ruscum 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)
  4. ruscum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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  6. Hubschmid, Johannes (1968) Bezeichnungen für Erika und andere Sträucher, Gestrüpp und Auswüchse (Vox Romanica)‎ (in German), volume 27, →DOI, page 337 seqq.
  7. A. J., Greimas (1968) “broce, broisse”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancien français: jusqu’au milieu du XIVᵉ siècle (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse, →ISBN
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