brucus

From Gaulish *wroika, from Proto-Celtic *wroikos. Documented once in a late gloss.^[1] Doublet of *broccium.

brūcus m (genitive brūcī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. heather

Second-declension noun.

• brūgāria

Forms influenced by brŏccus:

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “brezo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 662

brūcus m (genitive brūcī); second declension

1. alternative form of brūchus (“a kind of wingless locust”)

• "brucus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)