birrus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin birrus (“a kind of cloak”), from Gaulish *birros, from Proto-Celtic *birros (“short”).

Noun

birrus (plural birruses)

1. A coarse kind of thick woollen cloth, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages.
2. A woollen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or head.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “birrus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Burris

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish *birros, from Proto-Celtic *birros (“short”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbir.rus/, [ˈbɪrːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbir.rus/, [ˈbirːus]

Noun

birrus m (genitive birrī); second declension

1. a cloak to keep off rain, made of silk or wool

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	birrus	birrī
genitive	birrī	birrōrum
dative	birrō	birrīs
accusative	birrum	birrōs
ablative	birrō	birrīs
vocative	birre	birrī

Descendants

• → English: birrus
• → Ancient Greek: βίρρος (bírrhos)

References

• “birrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “birrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers