ruscum

Latin

Alternative forms

• rūscus, brūscus, brīscus f

Etymology

Unknown; Late Latin forms possibly contaminated by *brūcus (“heather”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈruːs.kum/, [ˈruːs̠kʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrus.kum/, [ˈruskum]

Noun

rūscum n (genitive rūscī); second declension^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

1. butcher's broom (Ruscus aculeatus)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	rūscum	rūsca
genitive	rūscī	rūscōrum
dative	rūscō	rūscīs
accusative	rūscum	rūsca
ablative	rūscō	rūscīs
vocative	rūscum	rūsca

Derived terms

• brīscō
• *bruscia^[7]
  • Old French: broce, broisse
  • Occitan:

    Provençal: brus m, brosse f

• *rūsculus
  • Friulian: rùscli
  • Istriot: rùscolo
  • Sicilian: rùsculu
  • → Albanian: rrushkull
• rūsceus

Descendants

• Catalan: rusco
• Istriot: rusca
• Italian: rusco
• Neapolitan: rusco
• Occitan: brusc m, brusca f
  • → French: brusc
• Portuguese: rusco
• Spanish: rusco, brusco
• Venetan: rusco, rosco
• → Albanian: rushk
• → Greek: μπρούσκος (broúskos)
• →? Proto-West Germanic: *ruskijā (see there for further descendants)

References

1. Delamarre, Xavier (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page uroica
2. “ruscum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
3. ruscum 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)
4. ruscum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
5. The template Template:R:mul:Genaust does not use the parameter(s):

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   Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Genaust, Helmut (1996) “ruscum”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3^rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN
6. Hubschmid, Johannes (1968) Bezeichnungen für Erika und andere Sträucher, Gestrüpp und Auswüchse (Vox Romanica)‎ (in German), volume 27, →DOI, page 337 seqq.
7. A. J., Greimas (1968) “broce, broisse”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancien français: jusqu’au milieu du XIVᵉ siècle (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse, →ISBN