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Latin
Etymology
From quercus (“oak”) + -eus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
querceus (feminine quercea, neuter querceum); first/second-declension adjective
- (post-Augustan) of oak
- made of oak leaves
c. 117 CE,
Tacitus,
Annales 2.83.4:
- Honores ut quis amore in Germanicum aut ingenio validus reperti decretique: ut nomen eius Saliari carmine caneretur; sedes curules sacerdotum Augustalium locis superque eas querceae coronae statuerentur; ludos circensis eburna effigies praeiret neve quis flamen aut augur in locum Germanici nisi gentis Iuliae crearetur.
121 CE,
Suetonius,
The Twelve Caesars Vita Gai 19:
- Per hunc pontem ultro citro commeauit biduo continenti, primo die phalerato equo insignisque quercea corona et caetra et gladio aureaque chlamyde, postridie quadrigario habitu curriculoque biiugi famosorum equorum, prae se ferens Dareum puerum ex Parthorum obsidibus, comitante praetorianorum agmine et in essedis cohorte amicorum.
- oaken
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “querceus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- querceus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.