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broccus

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Possibly borrowed from Gaulish *brokkos, from Proto-Celtic *brokkos (badger).[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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broccus m (genitive broccī); second declension

  1. A person having projecting teeth, a buck-toothed person

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative broccus broccī
genitive broccī broccōrum
dative broccō broccīs
accusative broccum broccōs
ablative broccō broccīs
vocative brocce broccī

Derived terms

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Adjective

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broccus (feminine brocca, neuter broccum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. having projecting teeth, buck-toothed
    • c. 2C. BC, Plautus, Sitellitergus (very short fragment):
      Bea mihi insignitos pueros pariat postea aut varum aut valgum aut compernem aut paetum aut brocchum filium.
      Well, remarkable boys she'd bear me after that, maybe a bow-legged, or knock-kneed, or thunder-thighed, or squint-eyed or buck-toothed kid.

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Catalan: broc, broca
  • French: broche
  • Galician: broco, broca; broche (from French)
  • Italian: brocco

References

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  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “broccus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 116
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*brokko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 80
  3. ^ broche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.