oleagineus

Latin

Alternative forms

• oleāginius, oleāginus

Etymology

From olea (“the olive tree or its fruit”) and oleum (“oil”), with a suffix likely extracted from farrāgineus, tiliāgineus, similāgineus; with alternative forms after fāginus, fabāginus. Not derived from oleāgō (“oil mixed with the sweat of an athlete”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /o.le.aːˈɡi.ne.us/, [ɔɫ̪eäːˈɡɪneʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o.le.aˈd͡ʒi.ne.us/, [oleäˈd͡ʒiːneus]

Adjective

oleāgineus (feminine oleāginea, neuter oleāgineum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational) olive (of or pertaining to the olive tree or its fruit)
2. (relational) oil (usually in the form oleāginus)
   1. oil-like, oily

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	oleāgineus	oleāginea	oleāgineum		oleāgineī	oleāgineae	oleāginea
Genitive	oleāgineī	oleāgineae	oleāgineī		oleāgineōrum	oleāgineārum	oleāgineōrum
Dative	oleāgineō		oleāgineō		oleāgineīs
Accusative	oleāgineum	oleāgineam	oleāgineum		oleāgineōs	oleāgineās	oleāginea
Ablative	oleāgineō	oleāgineā	oleāgineō		oleāgineīs
Vocative	oleāginee	oleāginea	oleāgineum		oleāgineī	oleāgineae	oleāginea

Synonyms

• oleāris
• oleārius

Derived terms

• oleāgō
• oleāginōsus

References

• “oleāgineus” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

Further reading

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