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Latin
Etymology
quercus (“oak-tree”) + -ētum (“plantation or grove”)
Pronunciation
Noun
querquētum n (genitive querquētī); second declension
- a wood, forest, or plantation of oak-trees
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
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References
- “querquētum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “querquetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- querquetum 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)
- querquētum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,296/2.
- “querquētum” on page 1,547/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)