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hircus

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(Inglese)

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

Pronunciato come (IPA)

[ˈhɪr.kʊs]

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.