rhoeas

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ῥοιάς (rhoiás), which could be from ῥέω (rhéō, “I flow, run”) or a Pre-Greek loan.

Pronunciation

Noun

rhoeas f (genitive rhoeadis); third declension

  1. wild poppy

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rhoeas rhoeadēs
Genitive rhoeadis rhoeadum
Dative rhoeadī rhoeadibus
Accusative rhoeadem rhoeadēs
Ablative rhoeade rhoeadibus
Vocative rhoeas rhoeadēs

Descendants

  • Translingual: Papaver rhoeas

References

  • “rhoeas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • rhoeas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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