Padus
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The Po along the city of Turin.
Translingual
Etymology
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Proper noun
Padus f
- Certain shrubs and trees with cherry-like fruit, including bird cherries, false bird cherries, cherry laurels, and similar shrubs and tree of former genus Pygaeum
Hypernyms
- (subgenus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, fabids – clades; Rosales – order; Rosaceae - family; Amygdaloideae - subfamily; Amygdaleae - tribe; Prunus - genus
Hyponyms
- (subgenus): For species see
Prunus subg. Padus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
References
Padus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Prunus subg. Padus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Prunus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Padus at Plants of the World Online
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Ligurian Bodincus, Bodencus (“bottomless”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn. The name could have been borrowed through Ancient Greek Πάδος (Pádos).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpa.dus/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpa.dus/,
Proper noun
Padus m sg (genitive Padī); second declension
- the River Po
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Padus |
| Genitive | Padī |
| Dative | Padō |
| Accusative | Padum |
| Ablative | Padō |
| Vocative | Pade |
Synonyms
- (the River Po): Ēridanus (mythology, poetry)
Derived terms
Descendants
- >? Italian: Po (from Gallo-Italic?)
References
- “Padus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “Pădus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Padus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Pădus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,101/2.
- “Padus¹” on page 1,281/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- ^ Keiler, Allan (1971): A reader in historical and comparative linguistics, p. 21