An Oscan loanword, from Proto-Italic *gʷrūtos, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”). Cognate with Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús), Persian گران (gerân) and Sanskrit गुरु (gurú). See also Latin gravis.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbruː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbruː.tus]

brūtus (feminine brūta, neuter brūtum); first/second-declension adjective

1. dull, stupid, insensible, unreasonable, irrational

   Synonyms: fatuus, stupidus, stultus, īnsipiēns, āmēns, dēmēns

   Antonyms: callidus, prūdēns, sapiēns, sollers

2. (rare) heavy, unwieldy

First/second-declension adjective.

• brūtālis
• brūtescō
• brūtum
• Brūtus

• Catalan: brut
• Emilian: brótt
• Dalmatian: brot
• → Old Irish: brúit
  • Irish: brúid
  • Scottish Gaelic: brùid
• Italian: brutto, bruto
  • → Dutch: bruto
    • → Indonesian: bruto
• Occitan: brut
• Old French: brut
  • Middle French: brut
    • French: brut
      • → English: brut
      • → German: brut
      • → Turkish: brüt
    • → English: brute
  • → Middle Dutch: bruut
    • Dutch: bruut
      • Afrikaans: bruut
• Piedmontese: brüt
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: bruto (learned)
  • Galician: bruto
  • Portuguese: bruto
• Romanian: brut
• Spanish: bruto

• “1. brūtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “brutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "brutus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “1 brūtus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “229/3”
• “brutus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “brutus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “brute”, in The Century Dictionary[…], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “brūtus¹” on page 243/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “brutus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 107/1