Latin

Noun

brūchus m ‎(genitive brūchī); second declension

1. a kind of wingless locust or grasshoper as in:

'Dixit, et venit locústa, et bruchus, cuius non erat numerus (He spoke and there came locust and grasshoper without number, Latin Psalter, Ps 104:34)

1. (New Latin) a bean weevil

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• Italian: bruco
• Portuguese: bruco
• Translingual: Bruchus

References

• bruchus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “bruchus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.