berula

A diminutive form of beru, from Proto-Celtic *beru, *bẹrŭro- (“spring, well”), said by Matasović to likely be related to *brutus (“fermentation, boiling heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-. Cognate with Welsh berwr, Irish biolar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbe.ru.laː/

berulā f

1. cress

• French: berle

• Matasović, Ranko (2009), Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

Borrowed from Gaulish berulā.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɛ.rʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbɛː.ru.la]

berula f (genitive berulae); first declension

1. a herb: bittercress or waterparsnip

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Marcellus Empiricus to this entry?)

First-declension noun.

• → Translingual: Berula

• “berŭla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “berŭla”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 215/2.