ruscum

Latin

Unknown; Late Latin forms possibly contaminated by *brūcus (“heather”).^[1]

rūscum n (genitive rūscī); second declension^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Second-declension noun (neuter).

brīscō
*bruscia^[7]
- Old French: broce, broisse
- Occitan:
  Provençal: brus m, brosse f
*rūsculus
- Friulian: rùscli
- Istriot: rùscolo
- Sicilian: rùsculu
- → Albanian: rrushkull
rūsceus

Italo-Dalmatian:
- Istriot: rusca
- Italian: rusco, brusco, ⇒ bruscolo, brusca (see there for further descendants)
- Neapolitan: rusco
- Venetan: rusco, rosco
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: rusco
- Occitan: brusc m, brusca f
  - → French: brusc
Ibero-Romance:
- Portuguese: rusco
- Spanish: rusco
Borrowings:
- → Albanian: rushk
- → Greek: μπρούσκος (broúskos)
- →? Proto-West Germanic: *ruskijā (see there for further descendants)

^ Delamarre, Xavier (2003) Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental [Dictionary of the Gaulish language: A linguistic approach to Old Continental Celtic] (Collection des Hespérides; 9), 2nd edition, Éditions Errance, →ISBN, page uroica
^ “ruscum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
^ "ruscum", 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)
^ ruscum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
^ Genaust, Helmut (1996) “Rúscus”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3^rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN
^ Hubschmid, Johannes (1968) Bezeichnungen für Erika und andere Sträucher, Gestrüpp und Auswüchse (Vox Romanica)‎^[1] (in German), volume 27, →DOI, page 337 seqq.
^ A. J., Greimas (1968) “broce, broisse”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancien français: jusqu’au milieu du XIVᵉ siècle (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse, →ISBN