Translingual

Hordeum vulgare

Proper noun

Hordeum n

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Poaceae – barley and related cereals.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, monocots, commelinids - clades; Poales - order; Poaceae - family; Pooideae - subfamily; Triticeae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Hordeum vulgare - species. See Hordeum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies for numerous species and synonyms.

Latin

Alternative forms

• ordeum

Noun

hordeum n ‎(genitive hordeī); second declension

1. barley

Usage notes

Classical writers used plural forms, but critics such as Bavius claimed that it should only be used in the singular.

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• hordeāceus
• hordeārius
• hordeolus

Descendants

References

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