hortus
Latin
Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰortós. Cognate with Oscan húrz, Ancient Greek χόρτος (khórtos), Old English ġeard. More at yard.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈhor.tus/, [ˈhɔrt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈor.tus/, [ˈɔrt̪us]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Noun
hortus m (genitive hortī); second declension
- garden (in a Roman villa)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | hortus | hortī |
| Genitive | hortī | hortōrum |
| Dative | hortō | hortīs |
| Accusative | hortum | hortōs |
| Ablative | hortō | hortīs |
| Vocative | horte | hortī |
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “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’s 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
- 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