genesta
Latin
Alternative forms
- genista
Etymology
Found in Medieval Latin; a loan of unclear origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gwₑnestā, compared with Ancient Greek βάτος (bátos, “bramble”), though Beekes derives the latter from a Mediterranean loan.
Noun
genesta f (genitive genestae); first declension
- broom (plant)
Inflection
First declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | genesta | genestae |
| Genitive | genestae | genestārum |
| Dative | genestae | genestīs |
| Accusative | genestam | genestās |
| Ablative | genestā | genestīs |
| Vocative | genesta | genestae |
Descendants
- Corsican: ghjinestra
- Italian: ginestra
- → Albanian: gjineshtër, gjeshtër
- Neapolitan: jenesta
- Old French: geneste, genest
- French: genêt
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: ginesta
- Occitan: ginèsta, genèsta
- Old Portuguese: geesta
- Galician: xesta
- Portuguese: gesta, giesta
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: hiniesta, ginesta
- Sicilian: inestra, ginestra
- → Dutch: genst
- → English: genista
- → Old High German: genestra
- German: Ginster
- → Spanish: genista
- → Swedish: ginst
- ⇒ Old French: plante genest (“broom blossom”)
- → English: Plantagenet
References
- genesta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- genesta in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- genesta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Linguistic Society of America (1966): Language Monographs, p. 77