fraxinus

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Latin

FWOTD – 16 October 2012

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *frāksinos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥Hǵ-s-inos, adjective of *bʰerHǵós (“birch”). Cognate with Sanskrit भूर्ज (bhūrjá, “Himalayan birch”) (Betula utilis), English birch, Russian берёза (berjóza).

Pronunciation

Noun

frāxinus f (genitive frāxinī); second declension

fraxinus (ash tree)
  1. an ash tree
    • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.30:
      montes et valles diligit abies, robur, castaneae, tilia, ilex, cornus. aquosis montibus gaudent acer, fraxinus, sorbus, tilia, cerasus.
      Mountains and valleys are favoured by fir, oak, chestnut, linden, scarlet oak, dogwood. Wet mountains abound in maple, ash, service-tree, linden, cherry.
  2. an ashen spear or javelin

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative frāxinus frāxinī
genitive frāxinī frāxinōrum
dative frāxinō frāxinīs
accusative frāxinum frāxinōs
ablative frāxinō frāxinīs
vocative frāxine frāxinī

Derived terms

Descendants

Adjective

frāxinus (feminine frāxina, neuter frāxinum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. of ash wood; ashen

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative frāxinus frāxina frāxinum frāxinī frāxinae frāxina
genitive frāxinī frāxinae frāxinī frāxinōrum frāxinārum frāxinōrum
dative frāxinō frāxinae frāxinō frāxinīs
accusative frāxinum frāxinam frāxinum frāxinōs frāxinās frāxina
ablative frāxinō frāxinā frāxinō frāxinīs
vocative frāxine frāxina frāxinum frāxinī frāxinae frāxina

References

Further reading

  • “fraxinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fraxinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fraxinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “fraxinus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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