ilex

See also: Ilex

English

An ilex.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ilex (“holm oak”).

Noun

ilex (plural ilexes or ilices)

1. Holm oak (Quercus ilex).
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 10:

     Many nights, though autumnal mists were spread around, I passed under an ilex—many times I have supped on arbutus berries and chestnuts, making a fire, gypsylike, on the ground […]

2. Any of the numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Ilex.

See also

• ilex on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ilex on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Lexi, elix

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Latin

the holly-like foliage of ilex
(Quercus ilex)

Etymology

Probably from a lost non-Indo-European language.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.leks/, [ˈiːɫ̪ɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.leks/, [ˈiːleks]

Noun

īlex f (genitive īlicis); third declension

1. holm oak (Quercus ilex)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	īlex	īlicēs
Genitive	īlicis	īlicum
Dative	īlicī	īlicibus
Accusative	īlicem	īlicēs
Ablative	īlice	īlicibus
Vocative	īlex	īlicēs

Derived terms

• īlignum

Descendants

• Translingual: Ilex
• Albanian: ilqe
• English: Ilex
• Esperanto: ilekso
• French: yeuse
• Galician: aciñeira
• Ido: ilexo
• Italian: elce
• Portuguese: azinheira
• Spanish: encina

References

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