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Ligustrum

Ligustrum

See also: ligustrum

Translingual

Ligustrum japonicum

Proper noun

Ligustrum n

A taxonomic genus within the family Oleaceae – the privets.

ligustrum

ligustrum

See also: Ligustrum

English

Noun

ligustrum ‎(plural ligustrums)

Any of several shrubs, of the genus Ligustrum, widely used for hedges; privet

Latin

Noun

ligustrum n ‎(genitive ligustrī); second declension

privet

Declension

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	ligustrum	ligustra
genitive	ligustrī	ligustrōrum
dative	ligustrō	ligustrīs
accusative	ligustrum	ligustra
ablative	ligustrō	ligustrīs
vocative	ligustrum	ligustra

Descendants

English: ligustrum
Italian: ligustro

References

ligustrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ligustrum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
LIGUSTRUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

ligùstrum m

privet (Ligustrum vulgare)

Synonyms

References

“ligustrum” in Hrvatski jezični portal