cachrys

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Latin[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάχρυς (kákhrus).

Noun[edit]

cachrys f (genitive cachryos); third declension

  1. an appendage to the catkin of certain trees in autumn, a cone
  2. the capsule of rosemary
  3. the white kernel of the sea fennel plant (crēthmos in Latin)

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cachrys cachryes
Genitive cachryos cachryum
Dative cachryī cachryibus
Accusative cachrym cachryas
Ablative cachry cachryibus
Vocative cachrys
cachry1 		cachryes

1In poetry.

References[edit]

  • “cachrys”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cachrys in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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