genesta
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Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A loan of unclear origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷₑnestā, compared with Ancient Greek βάτος (bátos, “bramble”), though Beekes derives the latter from a Mediterranean loan (likely a substrate language).
Noun
[edit]genesta f (genitive genestae); first declension
- broom (plant)
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | genesta | genestae |
Genitive | genestae | genestārum |
Dative | genestae | genestīs |
Accusative | genestam | genestās |
Ablative | genestā | genestīs |
Vocative | genesta | genestae |
Descendants
[edit]- Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: ghjinestra
- Italian: ginestra
- → Albanian: gjineshtër, gjeshtër
- → Sicilian: ginestra
- Neapolitan: jenesta
- Sicilian: jilestra, gilestra
- Gallo-Italic:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References
[edit]- “genesta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “genesta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- genesta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Linguistic Society of America (1966): Language Monographs, p. 77