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See also: Aesculus
Latin
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Etymology
[edit]Etymology unclear. By surface analysis, seemingly a diminutive form ending in -ulus (diminutive suffix).
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”), or from a Mediterranean substrate, though the presence of a Germanic cognate is surprising. Compare English oak, Lithuanian ąžuolas (“oak”), Albanian enjë (“juniper, yew”), Ancient Greek αἰγίλωψ (aigílōps, “Turkey oak”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈae̯s.ku.lus/, [ˈäe̯s̠kʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈes.ku.lus/, [ˈɛskulus]
Noun
[edit]aesculus f (genitive aesculī); second declension
- the tallest species of oak, the winter oak or Italian oak (with edible acorns), sacred to Jupiter
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | aesculus | aesculī |
Genitive | aesculī | aesculōrum |
Dative | aesculō | aesculīs |
Accusative | aesculum | aesculōs |
Ablative | aesculō | aesculīs |
Vocative | aescule | aesculī |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “aesculus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 28
- “aesculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aesculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aesculus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- aesculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “aesculus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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