buprestis

See also: Buprestis

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βούπρηστις (boúprēstis), from βοῦς (boûs, “cow”) +‎ πρήθω (prḗthō, “I burn, inflame, inflate”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /buːˈpreːs.tis/, [buːˈpreːs̠t̪ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /buˈpres.tis/, [buˈprɛst̪is]

Noun

būprēstis f (genitive būprēstis); third declension

1. a beetle, which being eaten with the grass caused a swelling in cattle
2. a kind of plant, perhaps Bupleurum rotundifolium, thought by some to be an aphrodisiac

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	būprēstis	būprēstēs
genitive	būprēstis	būprēstium
dative	būprēstī	būprēstibus
accusative	būprēstem	būprēstēs būprēstīs
ablative	būprēste	būprēstibus
vocative	būprēstis	būprēstēs

Descendants

• Translingual: Buprestis

References

• “buprestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• buprestis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.