ilex

See also: Ilex

English

An ilex.

Borrowed from Latin ilex (“holm oak”).

ilex (plural ilexes or ilices)

Holm oak (Quercus ilex).
- 1818 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mazenghi”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, OCLC 1166918967, stanza 9, page 259:
  There is a point of strand / Near Vada's tower and town; and on one side / The treacherous marsh divides it from the land, / Shadowed by pine and ilex forests wide, / And on the other creeps eternally, / Through muddy weeds, the shallow, sullen sea.
- 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter X, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 230675575:
  Many nights, though autumnal mists were spread around, I passed under an ilex—many times I have supped on arbutus berries and chestnuts, making a fire, gypsylike, on the ground […]
Any of the numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Ilex.

the holly-like foliage of ilex
(Quercus ilex)

Probably from a lost non-Indo-European substrate language.

īlex f (genitive īlicis); third declension

Third-declension noun.

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

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