corylus

See also: Corylus

Latin

Alternative forms

• corulus, corilus

Etymology

Together with Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”), Proto-Germanic *haslaz (“hazel”) from Proto-Indo-European *kóslos if not a Proto-Italic borrowing from Celtic or Germanic before the First Germanic Sound Shift or a substrate. The presence of the “y” letter may be a reworking of the original corulus variant through a phenomenon in which the Romans had the tendency to Grecize words for poetic reasons. See Thybris and Tiberis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ry.lus/, [ˈkɔrʏɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ri.lus/, [ˈkɔːrilus]

Noun

corylus f (genitive corylī); second declension

1. a hazel or filbert shrub
   • 70 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Eclogues 1.14–15:

     Hic inter densas corylos modo namque gemellos / spem gregis, a! silice in nuda conixa reliquit.

     for here in the hazel thicket just now dropping twins / ah, the flock's hope, on naked flint, she abandoned them.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cato the Elder to this entry?)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ovid to this entry?)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	corylus	corylī
Genitive	corylī	corylōrum
Dative	corylō	corylīs
Accusative	corylum	corylōs
Ablative	corylō	corylīs
Vocative	coryle	corylī

Derived terms

• colurnus
• corylētum

Descendants

• Translingual (taxonomic genus): Corylus

References

• “cŏrylus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “corylus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cŏry̆lus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 436/2.