ilex

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English

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An ilex.

Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin ilex (holm oak).

Noun

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ilex (plural ilexes or ilices)

  1. Holm oak (Quercus ilex).
    • 1818 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mazenghi”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: [] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, [], published 1824, →OCLC, stanza 9, page 259:
      There is a point of strand / Near Vada's tower and town; and on one side / The treacherous marsh divides it from the land, / Shadowed by pine and ilex forests wide, / And on the other creeps eternally, / Through muddy weeds, the shallow, sullen sea.
    • 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter X, in The Last Man. [], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, [], →OCLC:
      Many nights, though autumnal mists were spread around, I passed under an ilex—many times I have supped on arbutus berries and chestnuts, making a fire, gypsylike, on the ground []
    • 1962, Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Peter Green, The Prime of Life, Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, translation of La Force de l'âge, →OCLC, page 77:
      Sometimes I lost track of them and had to hunt round in a circle, thrusting through sharp-scented bushes, scratching myself on various plants which were still new to me: resinaceous rock-roses, juniper, ilex [translating chênes verts], yellow and white asphodel.
  2. Any of the numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Ilex.

See also

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Anagrams

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Latin

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the holly-like foliage of ilex
(Quercus ilex)

Etymology

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Probably from a lost non-Indo-European substrate language.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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īlex f (genitive īlicis); third declension

  1. holm oak (Quercus ilex)

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative īlex īlicēs
Genitive īlicis īlicum
Dative īlicī īlicibus
Accusative īlicem īlicēs
Ablative īlice īlicibus
Vocative īlex īlicēs

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • ilex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ilex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ilex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old French

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Adverb

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ilex

  1. Alternative form of iluec