pinetum

English

Etymology

From Latin pīnētum (“pine grove”).

Noun

pinetum (plural pineta or pinetums)

1. An arboretum, or part of an arboretum or garden, devoted to growing conifers.
   • 1838 February, “On the Formation of a Public Botanic Garden”, in The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement:

     In the arrangement, of course, I should expect to see every hardy tree which could be collected in any part of the globe; and I even anticipate revelling in quercetums, fraxinetums, salicetums, pinetums, aceretums, &c.

2. (archaic) A book that scientifically describes conifers.

Anagrams

• Pentium, numptie

Latin

Etymology

From pīnus (“pine”) +‎ ētum (“grove”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [piːˈneː.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [piˈnɛː.t̪um]

Noun

pīnētum n (genitive pīnētī); second declension

1. a pine wood, pine grove

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	pīnētum	pīnēta
genitive	pīnētī	pīnētōrum
dative	pīnētō	pīnētīs
accusative	pīnētum	pīnēta
ablative	pīnētō	pīnētīs
vocative	pīnētum	pīnēta

Descendants

• Italian: pineta
• Occitan: pineda
  • → French: pinède
• → English: pinetum
• Sicilian: pinita

References

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