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Tilia
Tilia
Translingual
Proper noun
Tilia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Malvaceae – trees, including the lindens, the basswoods and the lime tree.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids II - clades; Malvales - order; Malvaceae - family; Tilioideae - subfamily
Hyponyms
- (genus): Tilia europaea - type species; Tilia americana - selected other species
tilia
tilia
Latin
Etymology
Probably a borrowing from a Mediterranean substrate, found also in Ancient Greek πτελέα (pteléa, “elm”) and Old Armenian թեղի (tʿełi).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈti.li.a/
Noun
tilia f (genitive tiliae); first declension
Inflection
First declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | tilia | tiliae |
genitive | tiliae | tiliārum |
dative | tiliae | tiliīs |
accusative | tiliam | tiliās |
ablative | tiliā | tiliīs |
vocative | tilia | tiliae |
Derived terms
- tiliāceus
- tiliāgineus
- tiliāris
Descendants
References
- tilia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tilia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- TILIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tilia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.