burricus

Latin

Etymology

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

burricus m (genitive burricī); second declension

small horse

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	burricus	burricī
genitive	burricī	burricōrum
dative	burricō	burricīs
accusative	burricum	burricōs
ablative	burricō	burricīs
vocative	burrice	burricī

Descendants

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

Galician: burrico, ⇒ burro
Portuguese: burrico, ⇒ burro
Spanish: borrico, ⇒ burro
- → French: bourrique^[2]
- → English: burro
- → Sardinian: burricu
- → Tagalog: buriko

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “būricus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 1: A–B, page 636
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 “burricus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
^ “borrico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
^ 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