fraxinus
See also: Fraxinus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *fraksinos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥Hǵ-s-inos, adjective of *bʰerHǵós (“birch”). Cognate with, भूर्ज (bhūrjá, “Himalayan birch”) (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.), English birch, Russian берёза (berjóza).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfrak.si.nus/, [ˈfräks̠ɪnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfrak.si.nus/, [ˈfräksinus]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Noun
fraxinus f (genitive fraxinī); second declension
- an ash tree
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.30:
- montes et valles diligit abies, robur, castaneae, tilia, ilex, cornus. aquosis montibus gaudent acer, fraxinus, sorbus, tilia, cerasus.
- Mountains and valleys are favoured by fir, oak, chestnut, linden, scarlet oak, dogwood. Wet mountains abound in maple, ash, service-tree, linden, [and] cherry.
- montes et valles diligit abies, robur, castaneae, tilia, ilex, cornus. aquosis montibus gaudent acer, fraxinus, sorbus, tilia, cerasus.
- an ashen spear or javelin
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | fraxinus | fraxinī |
Genitive | fraxinī | fraxinōrum |
Dative | fraxinō | fraxinīs |
Accusative | fraxinum | fraxinōs |
Ablative | fraxinō | fraxinīs |
Vocative | fraxine | fraxinī |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Corsican: frassu
- Eastern Romance:
- Extremaduran: fresnu
- Italian: frassino
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Old French: fresne(Please either change this template to {{desc}} or insert a ====Descendants==== section in fresne#Old French)
- Old Leonese:
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: freixo, freyxo
- Old Spanish: fresno, freisno, frexno, frexeno
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: frassu
- Sicilian: fràscinu, fràssinu
- Venetian: fràsene, fràsino
- → Albanian: frashër
- → Greek: φράξος (fráxos)
Adjective
fraxinus (feminine fraxina, neuter fraxinum); first/second-declension adjective
- of ash wood; ashen
- 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.677–678:
- […] certe si fraxinus esset, fulva colore foret […]
- surely if it were of ash, it would have a yellow color
- […] certe si fraxinus esset, fulva colore foret […]
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | fraxinus | fraxina | fraxinum | fraxinī | fraxinae | fraxina | |
Genitive | fraxinī | fraxinae | fraxinī | fraxinōrum | fraxinārum | fraxinōrum | |
Dative | fraxinō | fraxinō | fraxinīs | ||||
Accusative | fraxinum | fraxinam | fraxinum | fraxinōs | fraxinās | fraxina | |
Ablative | fraxinō | fraxinā | fraxinō | fraxinīs | |||
Vocative | fraxine | fraxina | fraxinum | fraxinī | fraxinae | fraxina |
References
- “fraxinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fraxinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fraxinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “fraxinus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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