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Webster 1828 Edition

Bonasus

BONA'SUS

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Noun.

[L.] A species of Bos, or wild ox, with a long mane; a native of Asia and Africa. It is of the size of a bull.

Definition 2024

bonasus

bonasus

English

Noun

bonasus ‎(plural not attested)

A bonnacon.

Latin

Etymology

Ancient Greek βόνασος ‎(bónasos)

Noun

bonāsus m ‎(genitive bonasi); first declension

A species of bull in Poeonia (in Macedonia), with the hair of a horse, and with horns unfit for fighting.

Descendants

Translingual: Bison bonasus, Rhinoptera bonasus, Bos bonasus

References

bonasus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “bonasus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.