βροῦκος

English (LSJ)

ὁ,

   A locust, or its wingless larva (Ionic acc. to Hsch.), Thphr.Fr.174.4; βροῦχος LXXLe.11.22, al., Ph.1.85, Lyd.Ost.56; collective in sg., Heph.Astr.1.20; Cypr. βροῦκα, Hsch.; βρεῦκος (Cret. acc. to Hsch.), prob.as sobriquet in Herod.2.73.

German (Pape)

[Seite 465] ὁ, auch βροῦχος, eine ungeflügelte Heuschrekkenart, Theophr.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

βροῦκος: ἢ βροῦχος, ὁ, εἶδος ἀκρίδος ἀπτέρου, ὡσαύτως ἀττέλαβος Θεόφρ. Ἀποσπ. 14. 4.

Spanish (DGE)

v. βροῦχος.

Frisk Etymological English

Grammatical information: m.
Meaning: a locust (Thphr.).
Other forms: βροῦχος (LXX, Ph.), βρούκα (Cypr., H.); βραῦκος (Cret.), βραύκη (AB, H.), βρε<ῦ>κος ἡ μικρὰ ἀκρίς, ὑπὸ Κρητῶν H., βρύκος (H.), βρόκοι ἀττέλεβοι, ἀκρίδες H.
Dialectal forms: Ion. acc. to H.
Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]
Etymology: βρύκος (and βροῦχος) was compared (EM ) with βρύκω eat greedily, gobble, grind but the agreement may be secondary. - No doubt a Pre-Gr. word, which fits the vowel-variation; the names if small animals show more often variation, but this is often exactly due to foreign origin, or dialectal differences (cf. cf. Schwyzer 198). S. also βερκνίς. - Through Lat. bruchus Fr. bruche.