labrusca

English

Etymology

Latin labrusca

Noun

labrusca (plural labruscas)

1. The fox grape (Vitis labrusca).

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Latin

Etymology

Possibly sharing a Proto-Indo-European origin with Sanskrit लिबुजा (libujā, “creeper”).

Noun

labrūsca f (genitive labrūscae); first declension

1. wild vine (Vitis labrusca)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	labrūsca	labrūscae
Genitive	labrūscae	labrūscārum
Dative	labrūscae	labrūscīs
Accusative	labrūscam	labrūscās
Ablative	labrūscā	labrūscīs
Vocative	labrūsca	labrūscae

Descendants

• → Albanian: larushkë, lërushkë
• Dalmatian: abastrain
• French: lambris, lambruche, lambrusque
• Italian: lambrusca, lambrusco

• → Portuguese: labrusca
• Romanian: lăuruscă
• → Spanish: labrusca

References

• “labrusca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “labrusca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• labrusca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Éditions Klincksieck (1907: Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes, Volumes 31-32