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Corylus
Corylus
See also: corylus
Translingual
Proper noun
Corylus f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Betulaceae – the hazelnut.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Fagales - order; Betulaceae - family; Coryloideae - subfamily
Coordinate terms
- (genus): Asterocarpinus, Carpinus, †Coryloides (extinct), †Cranea (extinct), †Kardiasperma (extinct), Ostrya, Ostryopsis, †Palaeocarpinus (extinct) - genera
Hyponyms
- (genus):
corylus
corylus
See also: Corylus
Latin
Alternative forms
Noun
corylus f (genitive corylī); second declension
- a hazel or filbert shrub
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Declension
Second declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | corylus | corylī |
genitive | corylī | corylōrum |
dative | corylō | corylīs |
accusative | corylum | corylōs |
ablative | corylō | corylīs |
vocative | coryle | corylī |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Translingual (taxonomic genus): Corylus
References
- cŏrylus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- corylus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cŏry̆lus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 436/2.