quercetum
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin quercetum
Noun
quercetum (plural quercetums)
- (dated, rare) A wood or plantation of oak trees.
- 1838 February 1, “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.
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Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kʷerˈkeː.tum/, [kᶣɛrˈkeː.tũ]
Noun
quercētum n (genitive quercētī); second declension
- Alternative spelling of querquētum
Declension
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | quercētum | quercēta |
| Genitive | quercētī | quercētōrum |
| Dative | quercētō | quercētīs |
| Accusative | quercētum | quercēta |
| Ablative | quercētō | quercētīs |
| Vocative | quercētum | quercēta |
References
- 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