phragmites

See also: Phragmites

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin phragmītēs, from Ancient Greek φραγμίτης (phragmítēs).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fɹæɡˈmaɪtiːz/

Noun

phragmites (plural phragmites)

  1. Any of several perennial reeds, of the genus Phragmites, found in wetlands.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φραγμίτης (phragmítēs).

Pronunciation

Noun

phragmītēs m (genitive phragmītis); third declension

  1. a kind of reed

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative phragmītēs phragmītēs
Genitive phragmītis phragmītium
Dative phragmītī phragmītibus
Accusative phragmītem phragmītēs
phragmītīs
Ablative phragmīte phragmītibus
Vocative phragmītēs phragmītēs

Descendants
  • English: phragmites
  • Translingual: Phragmites

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