boscus

Latin

Alternative forms

• busca f

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔs.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔs.kus]

Noun

boscus m (genitive boscī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) wood, woodland

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	boscus	boscī
genitive	boscī	boscōrum
dative	boscō	boscīs
accusative	boscum	boscōs
ablative	boscō	boscīs
vocative	bosce	boscī

Descendants

• Gallo-Italian:
  • Piedmontese: bosch
• Iberian:
  • Aragonese: bosque
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: bosco
    • Galician: bosque
    • Portuguese: bosque
  • Spanish: bosque
    • Chavacano: bosque
    • → English: bosque
• East Iberian:
  • Old Catalan: bosc
    • Catalan: bosc
  • Old Occitan: bosc, boiso, boscu
    • Occitan:
      • Gascon: bòsc (Aranais)
      • Languedocien: bòsc
      • Provençal: bos (Mistralienne), boasc (Niçois), bòsc (Occitane)
      • Vivaro-Alpin: bòsc
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: boscu
  • Dalmatian: buasc
  • Italian: bosco
    • → Maltese: bosk
  • Neapolitan: vuosco
  • Sicilian: voscu
• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: boschet
• Oïl:
  • Old French: bois, bosc
    • Bourguignon: boo
    • Bourbonnais-Berrichon: bou
    • Middle French: bois, boys, boiz
      • French: bois
        • Haitian Creole: bwa
    • Gallo: boéz, (Ille, Vilaine) boueil
    • Norman: bouais (Jersiais), bwee (Sercquiais)
    • Orléanais: boué (Solognot)
    • Picard: bôs (Athois), bos (Ch'ti)
    • Walloon: bos (Charleroi), bwès (Forrières, Liégeois)
    • ⇒ Old French: bousquet, bochet, bouquet
      • Middle French: bouquet, boucquet
        • French: bouquet
          • → English: bouquet
      • Gallo: bóqèt
      • Norman: boûquet
      • Picard: bouqueû, bouqueut
      • Walloon: boukèt
• Rhaetian:
  • Friulian: bosc
• Southern:
  • Sardinian: buscu
• ⇒ Latin: *busca
  • Old French: busche
    • Middle French: busche
      • French: bûche
  • Anglo-Latin: bosca
    • → Middle English: bosk
      • English: bosk

See also

• *boscāticum
• *imboscō