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Aesculus
Aesculus
See also: aesculus
Translingual
Proper noun
Aesculus f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Sapindaceae – buckeyes and horse chestnuts.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids II - clades; Sapindales - order; Sapindaceae - family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Aesculus hippocastanum - type species; for other species see
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aesculus
aesculus
See also: Aesculus
Latin
Noun
aesculus f (genitive aesculī); second declension
- the tallest species of oak, the winter oak or Italian oak (with edible acorns), sacred to Jupiter
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | aesculus | aesculī |
| genitive | aesculī | aesculōrum |
| dative | aesculō | aesculīs |
| accusative | aesculum | aesculōs |
| ablative | aesculō | aesculīs |
| vocative | aescule | aesculī |
Descendants
- Italian: eschio
- Portuguese: ésculo
References
- aesculus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- aesculus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- AESCULUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “aesculus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- aesculus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers