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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin quercetum.
Noun
quercetum (plural quercetums)
- (dated, rare) A wood or plantation of oak trees.
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.
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
quercētum n (genitive quercētī); second declension
- Alternative spelling of querquētum
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- “quercētum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quercetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quercētum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,295/3.