ursus

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos (“bear”). The initial u- is unexpected, and may have arisen as a tabuistic distortion. For the outcome s of original *tḱ compare sinō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈur.sus/, [ˈʊrs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈur.sus/, [ˈursus]

ursus m (genitive ursī); second declension

1. a bear

Second-declension noun.

• ursa
• ursīna
• ursīnus

• Aragonese: onso
• Aromanian: ursu
• Asturian: osu
• Catalan: ós, ors
• Corsican: orsu
• → Esperanto: urso
• Friulian: ors
• Italian: orso
• Ladin: lors
• Ladino: lonso
• Occitan: ors
• Old French: urs
  • Middle French: ours
    • French: ours
• Old Galician-Portuguese: usso, osso, husso
  • Galician: oso
  • Portuguese: usso
• Old Spanish: osso
  • Spanish: oso, osso; joso
    • → Yaqui: hooso
• → Portuguese: urso
• Romanian: urs
• Romansch: urs, uors
• Sardinian: ursu
• Sicilian: ursu
• Translingual: Ursus
• Venetian: ors, orso
• Walloon: oûsse

• “ursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ursus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ursus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “ursus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ursus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray