hortus
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Italic *hortos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰortós. Cognate with Oscan húrz, Ancient Greek χόρτος (khórtos), Old English ġeard. More at yard.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hortus m (genitive hortī); second declension
DeclensionEdit
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | hortus | hortī |
| Genitive | hortī | hortōrum |
| Dative | hortō | hortīs |
| Accusative | hortum | hortōs |
| Ablative | hortō | hortīs |
| Vocative | horte | hortī |
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Asturian: güertu
- Catalan: hort, horta
- Corsican: ortu
- Dalmatian: vart
- Old French: ort, hort, ortelon, ortel, ortage, ortelage, ortelain, ortellerie, orte
- Middle French: hortailles, horteau, hortel, hortelage, hortelin, hortif, hortillon
- French: hortillonnages, hortillon, hortelain (dialectal)
- Middle French: hortailles, horteau, hortel, hortelage, hortelin, hortif, hortillon
- Friulian: ort
- Galician: horto, horta
- Italian: orto
- Occitan: òrt, òrta
- Piedmontese: òrt
- Portuguese: horto, horta
- Romansch: üert, iert
- Sardinian: oltu, ortu, otu
- Sicilian: ortu
- Spanish: huerto, huerta
- Venetian: orto, ort
ReferencesEdit
- “hortus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hortus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hortus 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)
- hortus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to bring a stream of water through the garden: aquam ducere per hortum
- to bring a stream of water through the garden: aquam ducere per hortum
- “hortus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “hortus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin