fruticetum

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fruticetum.

Noun

fruticetum (plural fruticeta)

  1. A kind of arboretum featuring shrubs and bushes rather than trees.

Latin

Etymology

frutex (“shrub, bush”) +‎ -ētum (“grove”)

Pronunciation

Noun

fruticētum n (genitive fruticētī); second declension

  1. a grouping of shrubs or bushes, a thicket, covert

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative fruticētum fruticēta
genitive fruticētī fruticētōrum
dative fruticētō fruticētīs
accusative fruticētum fruticēta
ablative fruticētō fruticētīs
vocative fruticētum fruticēta

Descendants

  • → Italian: fruticeto
  • → Portuguese: fruticeto

References

  • “fruticetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fruticetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fruticetum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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