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English
Etymology
Borrowed from translingual Combretum, from Latin combrētum.
Noun
combretum (plural combretums)
- Any of a number of tropical trees and shrubs in the genus Combretum.
Translations
Latin
Etymology
Unknown, with -ētum (plant collective).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
combrētum n (genitive combrētī); second declension
- a kind of rush (perhaps Luzula sylvatica, syns. Juncus sylvaticus, Juncus maximus)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “combrētum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 128
- “combretum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- combretum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.