hedera
English
editEtymology
editFrom the genus name Hedera, in turn from Latin hedera (“ivy”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithedera (plural hederas)
- (horticulture) Any Old World ivy of the genus Hedera
- 2007 March 8, Jan Benzel, “Philadelphia Calls Off Winter for a Week”, in New York Times[1]:
- The American Ivy Society hewed closely to the theme, exhibiting only hederas that come from Ireland or have an Irish name.
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editLatin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editUnknown. One hypothesis derives it from Proto-Italic *hedezā, from earlier *xedezā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed-es-eh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to seize, grasp, take”), which is the same source as Latin *hendō in prehendō and Ancient Greek χανδάνω (khandánō, “to get, grasp”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈhe.de.ra/, [ˈhɛd̪ɛrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.de.ra/, [ˈɛːd̪erä]
Noun
edithedera f (genitive hederae); first declension
- ivy
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.767:
- Cūr hederā cīncta est? Hedera est grātissima Bacchō.
- Why has she been crowned with ivy? Ivy is most pleasing to Bacchus.
(Sacerdos Liberi, elderly priestesses, wore ivy wreaths honoring Pater Liber – also known as Bacchus or the Greek Dionysus – during the ancient Roman festival of Liberalia.)
- Why has she been crowned with ivy? Ivy is most pleasing to Bacchus.
- Cūr hederā cīncta est? Hedera est grātissima Bacchō.
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | hedera | hederae |
Genitive | hederae | hederārum |
Dative | hederae | hederīs |
Accusative | hederam | hederās |
Ablative | hederā | hederīs |
Vocative | hedera | hederae |
Derived terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- Buchi, Éva, Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–) “*/ˈɛder-a/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.
Further reading
edit- “hedera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hedera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hedera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- hedera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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