beryllus

Latin

Alternative forms

• bērillus, berullus

Etymology

Etymology tree

Pali veḷuriyabor.

Prakrit 𑀯𑁂𑀭𑀼𑀮𑀺𑀅 (verulia)bor.

Ancient Greek βήρυλλος (bḗrullos)bor.

Latin beryllus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βήρυλλος (bḗrullos), borrowed from Pali veḷuriya, or borrowed from Prakrit 𑀯𑁂𑀭𑀼𑀮𑀺𑀅 (verulia).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [beːˈryl.lʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [beˈril.lus]

Noun

bēryllus m (genitive bēryllī); second declension

1. beryl

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	bēryllus	bēryllī
genitive	bēryllī	bēryllōrum
dative	bēryllō	bēryllīs
accusative	bēryllum	bēryllōs
ablative	bēryllō	bēryllīs
vocative	bērylle	bēryllī

Derived terms

• beryllus aeroides

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: berillo
  • ⇒ Italian: brillare
    • → Asturian: brillar
    • → Catalan: brillar
    • → French: briller
    • → Maltese: bbrilla
    • → Portuguese: brilhar
    • → Spanish: brillar
  • Sicilian: biriḍḍu, birillu
• Gallo-Italic:
  • ⇒ Romagnol: brilêr
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: beril, ⇒ bericles
    • French: béryl, ⇒ besicles
      • → Polish: beryl
    • → Middle English: beryl, beril, berill, berille, beralle, berel, berell, berelle, berylle, birall, birell, birrall, brill, burel, burell, byrall, byralle, byrell, byryl (Late Middle English)
      • English: beryl
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Portuguese: berilo
  • Spanish: berilo
• Borrowings:
  • → Middle Dutch: beril
    • Dutch: beril, bril
      • Afrikaans: bril
      • → Papiamentu: brel
    • → West Frisian: bril
  • → Middle High German: berille, brille
    • German: Brille
      • → Czech: brýle
      • → Latvian: brille, brilles
      • → Polish: bryle
    • Hunsrik: Brill
  • → Middle Low German: berille, barille
    • German Low German: brille
      • → Danish: brille
      • → Norwegian Bokmål: brille
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: brille
      • → Swedish: brillor
  • → Russian: берилл (berill)

References

• “beryllus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “beryllus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “beryllus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “beryllus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray