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Latin
Etymology
From hedera + -āceus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
hederāceus (feminine hederācea, neuter hederāceum); first/second-declension adjective
- made of ivy
Marcus Porcius Cato,
De Agricultura 111:
- Si voles scire, in vinum aqua addita sit necne, vasculum facito de materia hederacia. Vinum id, quod putabis aquam habere, eo demittito. Si habebit aquam, vinum effluet, aqua manebit. Nam non continet vinum vas hederaceum.
c. 77 CE – 79 CE,
Pliny the Elder,
Naturalis Historia 16.92:
- Iam densa aut rara semperque lata rariora. disposita myrto, concava buxo, inordinata pomis, plura eodem pediculo exeuntia malis pirisque, ramulosa ulmo et cytiso. quibus adicit Cato decidua populea quernaque, animalibus iubens dari non perarida, bubus quidem et ficulnea ilignaque et hederacea. dantur et ex harundine ac lauru. decidunt sorbo universa, ceteris paulatim. et de foliis hactenus.
- ivy-colored
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
- → Proto-West Germanic: *hederik (see there for further descendants)
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