brutus
See also: Brutus
Latin
Etymology
An Oscan loanword, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us. Cognate with Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús), Persian گران (gerân) and Sanskrit गुरु (gurú). See also Latin gravis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈbruː.tus/, [ˈbruːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbru.tus/, [ˈbruːt̪us]
Adjective
brūtus (feminine brūta, neuter brūtum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | brūtus | brūta | brūtum | brūtī | brūtae | brūta | |
Genitive | brūtī | brūtae | brūtī | brūtōrum | brūtārum | brūtōrum | |
Dative | brūtō | brūtō | brūtīs | ||||
Accusative | brūtum | brūtam | brūtum | brūtōs | brūtās | brūta | |
Ablative | brūtō | brūtā | brūtō | brūtīs | |||
Vocative | brūte | brūta | brūtum | brūtī | brūtae | brūta |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Catalan: brut
- Dalmatian: brot
- → Old Irish: brúit
- Italian: brutto, bruto
- Old French: brut
- Piedmontese: brüt
- Portuguese: bruto
- Spanish: bruto
References
- “1. brūtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “brutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- brutus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- 1 brūtus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “229/3”
- “brutus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “brutus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “brute”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “brūtus¹” on page 243/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “brutus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 107/1