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.

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:

  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Galician: burrico, ⇒ burro
    • Portuguese: burrico, ⇒ burro
    • Spanish: borrico, ⇒ burro

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “būricus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 1: A–B, page 636
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 “burricus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
  3. ^ “borrico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
  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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