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Burrus

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Where it lives

Commodus Antoninus 2 · 5.77/10k
Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
Annales 23 · 2.59/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

1. burrus — Lewis & Short

burrus, a, umpurro/s, an old word, = rufus, rubens,

I red, Paul. ex Fest. p. 31 Müll.; cf. id. p. 36.—Collat. form byrrus, a, um, Prob. ad Juv. 3, 283.

2. Burrus — Lewis & Short

Burrus, an old form for Pyrrhus,

Cic. Or. 48, 160; Quint. 1, 4, 15.

3. burrus — Walde–Hofmann

burrus, -a, -wm „feuerrot, scharlachrot“ (Paul. Fest. 31, rom. birrus, *bürius; davon burränicus, -a, -um Paul. Fest. 36): aus gr. Tuppóc ds. (Saalfeld, Leumann-Stolz* 130). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. burrus, p. 156]

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. burrus (scan pp. 102-103; entry #1400).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. burrus (scan p. 156; entry #469).

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