ursus

From Proto-Italic *orssos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos (“bear”). The initial u- is unexpected, and may have arisen as a taboo distortion. For the outcome s of original *tḱ compare sinō.^[1] Doublet of Arctos.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈʊr.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈur.sus]

ursus m (genitive ursī); second declension

1. a bear

Second-declension noun.

• ursa
• ursīna
• ursīnus

• “ursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ursus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “ursus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ursus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray