ocrea
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Latin ocrea (“greave, legging”).
Noun[edit]
ocrea (plural ocreas or ocreae)
- (botany) A sheath around a plant stem forming from the stipule of a leaf and extending above the point of insertion of the leaf.
Usage notes[edit]
- A leaf sheath typically does not fully encase the stem, and may also form around an axillary organ such as a bud.
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Cognate with mediocris, Ancient Greek ὄκρις (ókris, “prominence”)
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈo.kre.a/, [ˈɔkreä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈo.kre.a/, [ˈɔːkreä]
Noun[edit]
ocrea f (genitive ocreae); first declension
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ocrea | ocreae |
Genitive | ocreae | ocreārum |
Dative | ocreae | ocreīs |
Accusative | ocream | ocreās |
Ablative | ocreā | ocreīs |
Vocative | ocrea | ocreae |
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References[edit]
- “ocrea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ocrea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ocrea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- ocrea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “ocrea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ocrea”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin