aesculus
See also: Aesculus
Latin
Etymology
Etymology unclear. Perhaps from the Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- from a Mediterranean substrate, though the presence of a Germanic cognate is surprising.
Cognates
From Proto-Indo-European: English oak, Lithuanian ąžuolas (“oak”), Albanian enjë (“juniper, yew”), Ancient Greek αἰγίλωψ (aigílōps, “Turkey oak”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈae̯s.ku.lus/, [ˈae̯s.kʊ.ɫʊs]
Noun
aesculus f (genitive aesculī); second declension
- the tallest species of oak, the winter oak or Italian oak (with edible acorns), sacred to Jupiter
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | aesculus | aesculī |
| Genitive | aesculī | aesculōrum |
| Dative | aesculō | aesculīs |
| Accusative | aesculum | aesculōs |
| Ablative | aesculō | aesculīs |
| Vocative | aescule | aesculī |
Descendants
- Italian: eschio
- Portuguese: ésculo
References
- aesculus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- aesculus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aesculus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- aesculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- aesculus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- de Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden: Brill
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