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Padus f

  1. Certain shrubs and trees with cherry-like fruit, including bird cherries, false bird cherries, cherry laurels, and similar shrubs and tree of former genus Pygaeum
    1. (archaic) A taxonomic genus within the family Rosaceae – now a subgenus of Prunus.
    2. A taxonomic subgenus within the family Rosaceae – Prunus subg. Padus.

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Latin edit

 
The Po along the city of Turin.

Etymology edit

From Ancient Ligurian Bodincus, Bodencus (bottomless), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn. The name could have been borrowed through Ancient Greek Πάδος (Pádos).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Proper noun edit

Padus m sg (genitive Padī); second declension

  1. the River Po

Declension edit

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Padus
Genitive Padī
Dative Padō
Accusative Padum
Ablative Padō
Vocative Pade

Synonyms edit

  • (the River Po): Ēridanus (mythology, poetry)

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Descendants edit

  • >? Italian: Po (from Gallo-Italic?)

References edit

  • Padus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • Pădus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Padus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Pădus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,101/2
  • Padus¹” on page 1,281/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
  1. ^ Keiler, Allan (1971): A reader in historical and comparative linguistics, p. 21