quercetum
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin quercetum.
Noun edit
quercetum (plural quercetums)
- (dated, rare) A wood or plantation of oak trees.
- 1838 February, “On the Formation of a Public Botanic Garden”, in The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement:
- In the arrangement, of course, I should expect to see every hardy tree which could be collected in any part of the globe; and I even anticipate revelling in quercetums, fraxinetums, salicetums, pinetums, aceretums, &c.
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kʷerˈkeː.tum/, [kʷɛrˈkeːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwerˈt͡ʃe.tum/, [kwerˈt͡ʃɛːt̪um]
Noun edit
quercētum n (genitive quercētī); second declension
- Alternative spelling of querquētum
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | quercētum | quercēta |
| Genitive | quercētī | quercētōrum |
| Dative | quercētō | quercētīs |
| Accusative | quercētum | quercēta |
| Ablative | quercētō | quercētīs |
| Vocative | quercētum | quercēta |
References edit
- “quercētum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quercetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quercētum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,295/3.