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Latin
Etymology
Together with Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”), Proto-Germanic *haslaz (“hazel”) from Proto-Indo-European *kóslos if not a Proto-Italic borrowing from Celtic or Germanic before the First Germanic Sound Shift or a substrate. The presence of the “y” letter may be a reworking of the original corulus variant through a phenomenon in which the Romans had the tendency to Grecize words for poetic reasons. See Thybris and Tiberis.
Pronunciation
Noun
corylus f (genitive corylī); second declension
- a hazel or filbert shrub
70 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Eclogues 1.14–15:
- Hic inter densas corylos modo namque gemellos / spem gregis, a! silice in nuda conixa reliquit.
- for here in the hazel thicket just now dropping twins / ah, the flock's hope, on naked flint, she abandoned them.
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Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Translingual (taxonomic genus): Corylus
References
- “cŏrylus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “corylus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cŏry̆lus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 436/2.