hortus

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *hortos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰórtos. Cognate with Oscan 𐌇𐌞𐌓𐌆 (húrz), Ancient Greek χόρτος (khórtos).

Pronunciation

Noun

hortus m (genitive hortī); second declension

  1. garden

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative hortus hortī
genitive hortī hortōrum
dative hortō hortīs
accusative hortum hortōs
ablative hortō hortīs
vocative horte hortī

Descendants

References

  • hortus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • hortus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "hortus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • hortus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to bring a stream of water through the garden: aquam ducere per hortum
  • hortus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • hortus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χόρτος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1644-5