Latin

Alternative forms

• brocchus, brochus

Noun

broccus m ‎(genitive broccī); second declension

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

Inflection

Second declension.

Adjective

broccus m ‎(feminine broccī, neuter broccum); first/second declension

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.

Inflection

First/second declension.

Descendants

• French: broche
• Italian: brocco
• Spanish: broche

References

1. ↑ Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938), “broccus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, 3rd edition, 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 978-90-04-17336-1, page 80
3. ↑ “broche” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• BROCCUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)