birrus

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Late Latin birrus (a kind of cloak), from Gaulish *birros, from Proto-Celtic *birros (short).

Noun

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birrus (plural birruses)

  1. A coarse kind of thick woollen cloth, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages.
  2. A woollen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or head.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for birrus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Gaulish *birros, from Proto-Celtic *birros (short).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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birrus m (genitive birrī); second declension

  1. a cloak to keep off rain, made of silk or wool

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative birrus birrī
Genitive birrī birrōrum
Dative birrō birrīs
Accusative birrum birrōs
Ablative birrō birrīs
Vocative birre birrī

Descendants

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  • English: birrus
  • Ancient Greek: βίρρος (bírrhos)

References

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  • birrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • birrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers