Translingual

Taxus baccata

Proper noun

Taxus f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Taxaceae – coniferous shrubs and trees, including the yew.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; Pinophyta - division; Pinopsida - class; Pinales - order; Taxaceae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Taxus baccata - type species; Taxus brevifolia, Taxus canadensis, Taxus cuspidata, Taxus floridana, Taxus fuana, Taxus globosa, Taxus sumatrana, Taxus wallichiana - other species; Taxus × hunnewelliana, Taxus × media - nothospecies

Latin

Noun

taxus f ‎(genitive taxī); second declension

1. A yew (tree).
2. (poetic) A javelin made of the wood of the yew tree.

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• taxeus
• taxicus

Descendants

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *þahsuz ‎(“badger”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- ‎(“construct”) after the badger's construction of its setts. However see also Gaulish taksos (Delamarre, 2003).

Noun

taxus m ‎(genitive taxī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) badger

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

• taxo

Descendants

References

• taxus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• taxus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• TAXUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “taxus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.