aesculus

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Latin

Aesculus fere mille annorum in Bulgaria (Thracia)

Etymology

Etymology unclear. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”), or from a Mediterranean substrate, though the presence of a Germanic cognate is surprising. Compare English oak, Lithuanian ąžuolas (“oak”), Albanian enjë (“juniper, yew”), Ancient Greek αἰγίλωψ (aigílōps, “Turkey oak”).

Pronunciation

Noun

aesculus f (genitive aesculī); second declension

  1. the tallest species of oak, the winter oak or Italian oak (with edible acorns), sacred to Jupiter

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative aesculus aesculī
Genitive aesculī aesculōrum
Dative aesculō aesculīs
Accusative aesculum aesculōs
Ablative aesculō aesculīs
Vocative aescule aesculī

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italian: eschio
  • Portuguese: ésculo

References

  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “aesculus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 28
  • “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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
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