hortus

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰortós. Cognate with Oscan húrz, Ancient Greek χόρτος (khórtos), Old English ġeard. More at yard.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhor.tus/, [ˈhɔr.tʊs]

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hortus m (genitive hortī); second declension

1. garden (in a Roman villa)

Second declension.

• cohors
• hortēnsis
• hortuālis
• hortulus

• 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, 1883–1887)
• hortus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • 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