hedera

See also: Hedera and hederá

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name Hedera, in turn from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin hedera (“ivy”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛ.də.ɹə/

Noun

hedera (plural hederas)

1. (horticulture) Any Old World ivy of the genus Hedera

Related terms

• hederaceous
• hederal

Anagrams

• Hardee, adhere, header, heared, rehead

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to seize, grasp, take”), the same source as Ancient Greek χανδάνω (khandánō, “to get, grasp”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈhe.de.ra/, [ˈhɛd̪ɛrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.de.ra/, [ˈɛːd̪erä]

Noun

hedera f (genitive hederae); first declension

1. ivy

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hedera	hederae
Genitive	hederae	hederārum
Dative	hederae	hederīs
Accusative	hederam	hederās
Ablative	hederā	hederīs
Vocative	hedera	hederae

Derived terms

• hederāceus
• hederātus
• hederiger
• hederōsus

Descendants

• Aromanian: eadirã, eadiri
• Asturian: hiedra, yedra
• Catalan: heura
• Esperanto: hedero
• French: lierre
• Friulian: jêre
• Italian: edera
• Norman: hierre
• Occitan: èdra
• Old French: iere

• Galician-Portuguese / Old Portuguese: edra
  • Galician: hedra
  • Portuguese: hera
• Romanian: iederă
• Romansch: edra
• Sardinian: edora, edola, edera
• Sicilian: èdira, èddira, ètira, èddara
• Spanish: hiedra, yedra
• Venetian: ènera, èrena, èrna, èłira

References

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