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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek καρυοῶτις (karuoôtis, “kind of date”).
Pronunciation
Noun
caryōta f (genitive caryōtae); first declension
- kind of nut-shaped date
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “caryota”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- caryota in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.