taxus

See also: Taxus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtak.sus/, [ˈtak.sʊs]

Etymology 1

A loanword of Scythian origin.

Noun

taxus f (genitive taxī); second declension

1. A yew (tree).
2. (poetic) A javelin made of the wood of the yew tree.

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	taxus	taxī
genitive	taxī	taxōrum
dative	taxō	taxīs
accusative	taxum	taxōs
ablative	taxō	taxīs
vocative	taxe	taxī

Derived terms

• taxeus
• taxicus

Descendants

• Asturian: texu
• Catalan: teix
• Esperanto: taksuso
• French: taxacées
• Ido: taxuso

• Italian: tasso
• Portuguese: teixo
• Spanish: tejo
• Translingual: Taxus
• Venetian: taso

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *þahsuz (“badger”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- (“construct”) after the badger's construction of its setts. However see also Gaulish taksos (Delamarre, 2003).

Noun

taxus m (genitive taxī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) badger

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	taxus	taxī
genitive	taxī	taxōrum
dative	taxō	taxīs
accusative	taxum	taxōs
ablative	taxō	taxīs
vocative	taxe	taxī

Synonyms

• taxō

Descendants

• Catalan: toixó
• French: taisson
• Italian: tasso

• Portuguese: texugo
• Spanish: tejón

References

• taxus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• taxus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “taxus”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “taxus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)