vaccinium

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Vaccinium, itself borrowed from Latin vaccīnium.

Noun

vaccinium (plural vacciniums)

  1. (botany) Any of the genus Vaccinium of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.

Latin

Etymology

From vaccīnus (“relating to cows”), or a corruption of Ancient Greek ὑάκινθος (huákinthos, “dark red, purple”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

vaccīnium n (genitive vaccīniī or vaccīnī); second declension

  1. bilberry, blueberry, whortleberry

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative vaccīnium vaccīnia
genitive vaccīniī
vaccīnī1 		vaccīniōrum
dative vaccīniō vaccīniīs
accusative vaccīnium vaccīnia
ablative vaccīniō vaccīniīs
vocative vaccīnium vaccīnia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

  • → Translingual: Vaccinium

References

  • “vaccinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “vaccinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vaccinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Austin, Florida Ethnobotany
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