corylus

See also: Corylus

Latin

Alternative forms

corulus

Etymology

Together with Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”), Proto-Germanic *haslaz (“hazel”) from Proto-Indo-European *kóslos if not a Proto-Italic borrowing from Celtic or Germanic before the First Germanic Sound Shift or a substrate.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ry.lus/, [ˈkɔrʏɫ̪ʊs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ri.lus/, [ˈkɔːrilus]

Noun

corylus f (genitive corylī); second declension

a hazel or filbert shrub
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cato the Elder to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ovid to this entry?)
- 70 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Eclogues 1.14–15:
  Hic inter densas corylos modo namque gemellos / spem gregis, a! silice in nuda conixa reliquit.
  for here in the hazel thicket just now dropping twins / ah, the flock's hope, on naked flint, she abandoned them.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	corylus	corylī
Genitive	corylī	corylōrum
Dative	corylō	corylīs
Accusative	corylum	corylōs
Ablative	corylō	corylīs
Vocative	coryle	corylī

Derived terms

colurnus
corylētum

Descendants

Translingual (taxonomic genus): Corylus

References

“cŏrylus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“corylus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
cŏry̆lus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 436/2