birrus

Borrowed from Late Latin birrus (“a kind of cloak”), from Gaulish *birros, from Proto-Celtic *birros (“short”).

birrus (plural birruses)

1. (historical) A coarse kind of thick woollen cloak, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages.
2. A woollen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or head.

• “birrus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Burris

Borrowed from Gaulish *birros, from Proto-Celtic *birros (“short”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɪr.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbir.rus]

birrus m (genitive birrī); second declension

1. a cloak to keep off rain, made of silk or wool

Second-declension noun.

• → English: birrus
• → Ancient Greek: βίρρος (bírrhos)

• “birrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “birrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers