brunus

• brūneus, brūnius, brunneus

Borrowed from Old High German brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz. This had become necessary because Latin does not have a native word for brown.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbruː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbruː.nus]

brūnus (feminine brūna, neuter brūnum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Medieval Latin) brown

   Synonyms: fuscus, suffuscus, nigricāns, subniger

First/second-declension adjective.

• Italian: bruno
• Spanish: bruno
• French: brun

• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “brunus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• "brunus", 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)