quercetum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quercetum.

Noun

quercetum (plural quercetums)

1. (dated, rare) A wood or plantation of oak trees.
   • 1838 February, “On the Formation of a Public Botanic Garden”, in The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement:

     In the arrangement, of course, I should expect to see every hardy tree which could be collected in any part of the globe; and I even anticipate revelling in quercetums, fraxinetums, salicetums, pinetums, aceretums, &c.

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kʷerˈkeː.tum/, [kʷɛrˈkeːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwerˈt͡ʃe.tum/, [kwerˈt͡ʃɛːt̪um]

Noun

quercētum n (genitive quercētī); second declension

1. Alternative spelling of querquētum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	quercētum	quercēta
Genitive	quercētī	quercētōrum
Dative	quercētō	quercētīs
Accusative	quercētum	quercēta
Ablative	quercētō	quercētīs
Vocative	quercētum	quercēta

References

• “quercētum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quercetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quercētum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,295/3.