brutus

An Oscan loanword, from Proto-Italic *gʷrūtos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us. Cognate with Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús), Persian گران (gerân) and Sanskrit गुरु (gurú). See also Latin gravis.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbruː.tus/, [ˈbruːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbru.tus/, [ˈbruːt̪us]

brūtus (feminine brūta, neuter brūtum); first/second-declension adjective

1. heavy, unwieldy
2. dull, stupid, insensible, unreasonable, irrational

   Synonyms: fatuus, stupidus, stultus, īnsipiēns, āmēns, dēmēns

   Antonyms: callidus, prūdēns, sapiēns, sollers

First/second-declension adjective.

• brūtālis
• brūtescō
• brūtum
• Brūtus

• Catalan: brut
• Dalmatian: brot
• → Old Irish: brúit
  • Irish: brúid
  • Scottish Gaelic: brùid
• Galician: bruto, brután
• Italian: brutto, bruto
  • → Dutch: bruto
    • → Indonesian: bruto
• Old French: brut
  • Middle French: brut
    • French: brut
      • → English: brut
      • → German: brut
      • → Turkish: brüt
    • → English: brute
  • → Middle Dutch: bruut
    • Dutch: bruut
      • Afrikaans: bruut
• Piedmontese: brüt
• Portuguese: bruto
• Romanian: brut
• Spanish: bruto

• “1. brūtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “brutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• brutus 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)
• 1 brūtus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “229/3”
• “brutus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “brutus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “brute”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “brūtus¹” on page 243/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “brutus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 107/1