quercetum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quercetum

Noun

quercetum (plural quercetums)

  1. (dated, rare) A wood or plantation of oak trees.
    • 1838 February 1, “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.

Latin

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /kʷerˈkeː.tum/, [kᶣɛrˈkeː.tũ]

Noun

quercētum n (genitive quercētī); second declension

  1. Alternative spelling of querquētum

Declension

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative quercētum quercēta
Genitive quercētī quercētōrum
Dative quercētō quercētīs
Accusative quercētum quercēta
Ablative quercētō quercētīs
Vocative quercētum quercēta

References
  • quercētum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • quercetum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • quercētum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,295/3
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