hircus

Significat (Anglès)

1. (declension-2, masculine) a buck, male goat
2. (broadly, declension-2, masculine) the rank smell of the armpits
3. (declension-2, figuratively, masculine) a filthy person

Conceptes

cabra

🐐

cabró

boc

Sinònims

caper

capra

haedus

Traduccions

bode

bouc

bok

τράγος

he-goat

chivo

🐐

κατσίκα

capra

🐐

Ziegenbock

Ziege

🐐

goat

🐐

Bock

chèvre

🐐

γίδα

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

[ˈhɪr.kʊs]

Etimologia (Anglès)

Unknown. As with other Indo-European words for “goat”, a reliable Proto-Indo-European etymon cannot be formally reconstructed. Nonetheless, compare Old High German irah, irh (“buck”), which Pokorny says is borrowed from the Latin. Possibly related to hirpus (“wolf”) and/or hirtus (“hairy, shaggy”); according to Pokorny, all three are from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”).
Varro, in De Lingua Latina cites a Sabine form: fircus.