galbulus

English

Etymology

Latin galbulus (“cypress cone”).

Pronunciation

enPR: gälʹbjo͞olo͝os

Noun

galbulus (plural galbuli)

  1. A fleshy seed-producing cone of junipers and cypresses

See also

References
  • Hart, G.T. 2011. Plants in Literature and Life: a wide-ranging dictionary of botanical terms. FriesenPress, Victoria, Canada. xv, 465.

Latin

Etymology

From galbus.

Pronunciation

Noun

galbulus m (genitive galbulī); second declension

  1. The nut of the cypress tree

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative galbulus galbulī
Genitive galbulī galbulōrum
Dative galbulō galbulīs
Accusative galbulum galbulōs
Ablative galbulō galbulīs
Vocative galbule galbulī

References
  • “galbulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • galbulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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