quercus

See also: Quercus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kʷerkus, assimilated from Proto-Indo-European *pérkus ~ *pr̥kʷéu- (“oak”). Compare Old Norse fýri (as in fýriskógr (“pine-wood”), Punjabi ਪਰਗਾਇ (pargāī, “holm oak”). See also English fir.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷer.kus/, [ˈkʷɛrkʊs̠]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkwer.kus/, [ˈkwɛrkus]

Noun

quercus f (genitive quercūs); fourth declension

An oak, oak-tree, especially the Italian oak.
(poetic) Of things made from oak wood.

Usage notes

The Italian oak was considered sacred to the god Jupiter.

Declension

Fourth-declension noun (dative/ablative plural in -ubus).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	quercus	quercūs
Genitive	quercūs	quercuum
Dative	quercuī	quercubus
Accusative	quercum	quercūs
Ablative	quercū	quercubus
Vocative	quercus	quercūs

Derived terms

Descendants

Translingual: Quercus
⇒ Galician: cerquiño, cerqueiro
Italian: quercia
Portuguese: querco
Sicilian: cerza
Spanish: alcornoque
- → English: cork

See also

rōbur

References

“quercus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“quercus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
quercus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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