English edit

Etymology edit

Latin galbulus (cypress cone).

Pronunciation edit

enPR: gälʹbjo͞olo͝os

Noun edit

galbulus (plural galbuli)

  1. A fleshy seed-producing cone of junipers and cypresses

See also edit

References edit

  • Hart, G.T. 2011. Plants in Literature and Life: a wide-ranging dictionary of botanical terms. FriesenPress, Victoria, Canada. xv, 465.

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From galbus.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

galbulus m (genitive galbulī); second declension

  1. The nut of the cypress tree

Declension edit

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative galbulus galbulī
Genitive galbulī galbulōrum
Dative galbulō galbulīs
Accusative galbulum galbulōs
Ablative galbulō galbulīs
Vocative galbule galbulī

References edit

  • galbulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • galbulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.