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hortus

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Etymology

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    From Proto-Italic *hortos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰórtos.[1] Cognate with Oscan 𐌇𐌞𐌓𐌆 (húrz), Ancient Greek χόρτος (khórtos).

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    hortus m (genitive hortī); second declension

    1. garden
      • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 4.109–111:
        Invitent croceis [apes] halantes floribus horti
        Et custos furum atque avium cum falce saligna
        Hellespontiaci servet tutela Priapi.
        May gardens bright, fragrant with flower, lure them [the bees] and Hellespontian Priap with his willow scythe the robbing bee and the birds keep away.

    Declension

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    Second-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative hortus hortī
    genitive hortī hortōrum
    dative hortō hortīs
    accusative hortum hortōs
    ablative hortō hortīs
    vocative horte hortī

    Derived terms

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    Descendants

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    References

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    • “hortus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “hortus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "hortus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • “hortus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to bring a stream of water through the garden: aquam ducere per hortum
    • “hortus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “hortus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
    1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “χόρτος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1644-5
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