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Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
ōcimus m (genitive ōcimī); second declension (hapax)
- Alternative form of ōcimum
- C.E. 4th C., Flavius Sosipater Charisius (author), Heinrich Keil (editor), Ars Grammatica (1857), page 72:
- Ōcimum cōnsuētūdō neutrāliter dīcit. Sed Aemilius Macer ait 'inter praeteritās numerābitur ōcimus herbās'.
- 'Basil' is usually of the neuter gender. But Aemilius Macer says 'basil (m) will be counted among the bygone herbs'.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- ocimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.