hircus

New Latin, from Latin hircus (“goat”)

hircus

1. Used attributively as a species epithet

Of unknown origin. As with other Indo-European words for "goat", reliable Proto-Indo-European etymon cannot be formally reconstructed. Possibly related or derived from hirtus (“hairy, shaggy”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhir.kus/, [ˈhɪr.kʊs]

hircus m (genitive hircī); second declension

1. a buck, male goat
2. (by extension) the rank smell of the armpits
3. (figuratively) a filthy person

Second declension.

• (male goat): caper

• hircīnus
• Hircipēs
• hircōsus
• hirculus

• English: hircine, hircinous, hircose
• Sicilian: ircu

• hircus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hircus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hircus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• hircus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 286