vaccinium

See also: Vaccinium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Vaccinium, itself borrowed from Latin vaccīnium.

Noun

vaccinium (plural vacciniums)

1. (botany) Any of the genus Vaccinium of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.

Latin

Etymology

From vaccīnus (“relating to cows”), or a corruption of Ancient Greek ὑάκινθος (huákinthos, “dark red, purple”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯akˈkiː.ni.um/, [u̯äkˈkiːniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vatˈt͡ʃi.ni.um/, [vätˈt͡ʃiːnium]

Noun

vaccīnium n (genitive vaccīniī or vaccīnī); second declension

1. bilberry, blueberry, whortleberry

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vaccīnium	vaccīnia
Genitive	vaccīniī vaccīnī1	vaccīniōrum
Dative	vaccīniō	vaccīniīs
Accusative	vaccīnium	vaccīnia
Ablative	vaccīniō	vaccīniīs
Vocative	vaccīnium	vaccīnia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• → Translingual: Vaccinium
  • → English: vaccinium

References

• “vaccinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vaccinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vaccinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.