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Fraxinus
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Frax′i-nus
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rop.
Noun.
[L., the ash tree.]
(Bot.)
A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees.
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Fraxinus excelsior
is the European ash; Fraxinus Americana
, the white ash; Fraxinus sambucifolia
, the black ash or water ash. Who began this bloody
fray
? Shakespeare
Definition 2024
Fraxinus
Fraxinus
See also: fraxinus
Translingual
Proper noun
Fraxinus m
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades; Lamiales - order; Oleaceae - family; Oleeae - tribe
Hyponyms
fraxinus
fraxinus
See also: Fraxinus
Latin
Noun
fraxinus f (genitive fraxinī); second declension
- an ash tree
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.30
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montes et valles diligit abies, robur, castaneae, tilia, ilex, cornus. aquosis montibus gaudent acer, fraxinus, sorbus, tilia, cerasus.
- Mountains and valleys are favoured by fir, oak, chestnut, linden, scarlet oak, dogwood. Wet mountains abound in maple, ash, service-tree, linden, [and] cherry.
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montes et valles diligit abies, robur, castaneae, tilia, ilex, cornus. aquosis montibus gaudent acer, fraxinus, sorbus, tilia, cerasus.
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- an ashen spear or javelin
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fraxinus | fraxinī |
| genitive | fraxinī | fraxinōrum |
| dative | fraxinō | fraxinīs |
| accusative | fraxinum | fraxinōs |
| ablative | fraxinō | fraxinīs |
| vocative | fraxine | fraxinī |
Derived terms
Descendants
Adjective
fraxinus m (feminine fraxina, neuter fraxinum); first/second declension
- of ash wood; ashen
- 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.677–678
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[…] certe si fraxinus esset, fulva colore foret […]
- surely if it were of ash, it would have a yellow color
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[…] certe si fraxinus esset, fulva colore foret […]
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Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | fraxinus | fraxina | fraxinum | fraxinī | fraxinae | fraxina | |
| genitive | fraxinī | fraxinae | fraxinī | fraxinōrum | fraxinārum | fraxinōrum | |
| dative | fraxinō | fraxinō | fraxinīs | ||||
| accusative | fraxinum | fraxinam | fraxinum | fraxinōs | fraxinās | fraxina | |
| ablative | fraxinō | fraxinā | fraxinō | fraxinīs | |||
| vocative | fraxine | fraxina | fraxinum | fraxinī | fraxinae | fraxina | |
References
- fraxinus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fraxinus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fraxinus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- fraxinus in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly