corylus

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See also: Corylus

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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. The presence of the “y” letter may be a reworking of the original corulus variant through a phenomenon in which the Romans had the tendency to Grecize words for poetic reasons. See Thybris and Tiberis.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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corylus f (genitive corylī); second declension

  1. a hazel or filbert shrub
    • 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.
    (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?)

Declension

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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

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Descendants

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  • Translingual (taxonomic genus): Corylus

References

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  • 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.