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

 

• IPA^(key): /brûː.kos/ → /ˈβru.kos/ → /ˈvru.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /brûː.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbru.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβru.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvru.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvru.kos/

Noun

βροῦκος • (broûkos) m (genitive βρούκου); second declension

1. A locust, or its wingless larva

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βροῦκος; τοῦ βρούκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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 (2006–2024)
• 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