Translingual

Cornus mas (type species)

Proper noun

Cornus f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cornaceae – the cornels (dogwoods) and related trees.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids - clades; Cornales - order; Cornaceae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Cornus subg. Cornus, Cornus subg. Benthamidia, Cornus subg. Swida, Cornus subg. Chamaepericlymenum - subgenera

French

Adjective

cornus

1. masculine plural of cornu

Anagrams

• curons

Latin

Etymology 1

Probably related to Ancient Greek κερασός ‎(kerasós, “cherry”).

Noun

cornus f ‎(genitive cornī); second declension

1. cornel, dogwood

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

Etymology 2

Inflected form of cornū ‎(“horn”)

Noun

cornūs

1. genitive singular of cornū

References

• cornus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cornus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cornus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• cornus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cornus in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• cornus in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press