Latin

Adjective

bovillus m ‎(feminine bovilla, neuter bovillum); first/second declension

1. (rare) of or pertaining to cattle, cows, oxen or bulls.

Usage notes

• In Aureate prose bovillus is used only by Livy in the text of a referendum put during the Punic Wars at the behest of the Pontifex Maximus relating to a sacrifice. Livy uses būbulus in a more general context, as do other writers including Cato the Elder.

Inflection

First/second declension.

Synonyms

• (of or pertaining to cattle): būbulīnus, būbulus

Related terms

References

• bovillus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bovillus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “bovillus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.