Translingual

Quercus cerris

Proper noun

Quercus f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Fagaceae – the oak trees.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Fagales - order; Fagaceae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Quercus alba, Quercus bicolor, Quercus coccinea, Quercus palustris, Quercus rubra - selected species. For more see List of Quercus species on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Noun

quercus f ‎(genitive quercūs); fourth declension

1. An oak, oak-tree, especially the Italian oak.
2. (poetic) Of things made from oak wood.

Usage notes

The Italian oak was considered sacred to the god Jupiter.

Declension

Fourth declension, dative/ablative plural in -ubus.

Derived terms

• querquētum

Descendants

• Translingual: Quercus
• English: cork
• Italian: quercia
• Portuguese: querco
• Spanish: alcornoque

See also

• rōbur

References

• quercus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quercus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “quercus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.