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English
Etymology
From Latin ocrea (“greave, legging”).
Noun
ocrea (plural ocreas or ocreae)
- (botany) A sheath around a plant stem forming from the stipule of a leaf and extending above the point of insertion of the leaf.
Usage notes
- A leaf sheath typically does not fully encase the stem, and may also form around an axillary organ such as a bud.
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Latin
Etymology
Cognate with mediocris, Ancient Greek ὄκρις (ókris, “prominence”)
Pronunciation
Noun
ocrea f (genitive ocreae); first declension
- A greave or legging worn to protect the shin, especially by soldiers.
Declension
First-declension noun.
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References
- “ocrea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ocrea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "ocrea", 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)
- ocrea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “ocrea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ocrea”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin