quercus
Appearance
See also: Quercus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *kʷerkus, assimilated from Proto-Indo-European *pérkus ~ *pr̥kʷéu- (“oak”). Compare Old Norse fýri (as in fýriskógr (“pine-wood”), Punjabi ਪਰਗਾਇ (pargāī, “holm oak”). See also English fir.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkʷer.kus/, [ˈkʷɛrkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkwer.kus/, [ˈkwɛrkus]
Noun
[edit]quercus f (genitive quercūs); fourth declension
- an oak, oak-tree, especially the Italian oak
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.441–443:
- Ac velut annōsō validam cum rōbore quercum
Alpīnī Boreae nunc hinc nunc flātibus illinc
ēruere inter sē certant; [...].- And just as a mighty oak with strength in age, when Alpine Northwinds — by [their] blows, now [to] this side, now that — compete among themselves to uproot [it]; [...].
- Ac velut annōsō validam cum rōbore quercum
- (poetic) something made from oak wood (e.g., an oaken ship, an oaken javelin, etc.)
Usage notes
[edit]The Italian oak was considered sacred to the god Jupiter.
Declension
[edit]Fourth-declension noun (dative/ablative plural in -ubus).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | quercus | quercūs |
genitive | quercūs | quercuum quercōrum |
dative | quercuī | quercubus |
accusative | quercum | quercūs |
ablative | quercū | quercubus |
vocative | quercus | quercūs |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Translingual: Quercus
- ⇒ Galician: cerquiño, cerqueiro
- Italian: quercia
- Portuguese: querco
- Sicilian: cerza
- Spanish: alcornoque
- → English: cork
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “quercus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quercus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quercus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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