genesta

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

A loan of unclear origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷₑnestā, compared with Ancient Greek βάτος (bátos, bramble), though Beekes derives the latter from a Mediterranean loan (likely a substrate language).

Noun

genesta f (genitive genestae); first declension

  1. broom (plant)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative genesta genestae
Genitive genestae genestārum
Dative genestae genestīs
Accusative genestam genestās
Ablative genestā genestīs
Vocative genesta genestae

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Corsican: ghjinestra
    • Italian: ginestra
    • Neapolitan: jenesta
    • Sicilian: jilestra, gilestra
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: znèstra, zinèstra
    • Ligurian: zenèstra
    • Lombard: xenestra, xinesta, xinessa
    • Piedmontese: ginèster, zënèstra, zinèstra, znèsta, znèstra
    • Romagnol: zinèstra
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitano-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Aragonese: chinestra, chinesta
    • Asturian: xinesta, xenesta, xiniesta, xiniestra, siñesta, señesta, siñestra, xinestra
    • Leonese: xiniesta, xinesta, xiniestra
    • Mozarabic: [Term?]
      • Spanish: giniestra (Andalusian)
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: geesta
    • Old Spanish: hiniesta, hiniestra
  • Borrowings:

References

  • genesta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • genesta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • genesta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Linguistic Society of America (1966): Language Monographs, p. 77
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