Latin

Noun

caespes m ‎(genitive caespitis); third declension

1. turf, sod
2. grassy field

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• Catalan: gespa
• Italian: cespite, cespo
• Portuguese: céspede
• Spanish: césped

References

• caespes in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• caespes in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “caespes”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Schrivjer, The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Latin