burricus

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Latin

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Etymology

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From burrus (red, reddish-brown). Possibly a contamination of an original form būricus (small horse) with a long vowel and a single -r-.[1][2]

Noun

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burricus m (genitive burricī); second declension

  1. small horse

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

Descendants

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Apparently from a form *burrīcus,[3] *burriccus[4] or *burrīccus[1] with penultimate stress:

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “būricus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 1: A–B, page 636
  2. 2.0 2.1 burricus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
  3. ^ borrico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
  4. ^ García Gallarín, Consuelo (1998) “Antropónimos de origen zoonímico: *ibicerru. *Tener+ariu, *burr+ecus, *cordarius. Burricus>*burriccus, asinus”, in Revista de filología románica, volume 15, page 301

Further reading

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  • burricus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • burricus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.