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English
Etymology
From Latin pīnētum (“pine grove”).
Noun
pinetum (plural pineta or pinetums)
- An arboretum, or part of an arboretum or garden, devoted to growing conifers
1838 February, “On the Formation of a Public Botanic Garden”, in The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement:In the arrangement, of course, I should expect to see every hardy tree which could be collected in any part of the globe; and I even anticipate revelling in quercetums, fraxinetums, salicetums, pinetums, aceretums, &c.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From pīnus (“pine”) + ētum (“grove”)
Pronunciation
Noun
pīnētum n (genitive pīnētī); second declension
- a pine wood, pine grove
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “pinetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pinetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pinetum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.