salicetum
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin salictum, salicētum (“plantation, grove or thicket of willows”), from salix (“willow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sæləˈsiːdəm/
Noun
salicetum (plural salicetums or saliceta)
- A group of willow trees.
- 1838 February, “On the Formation of a Public Botanic Garden”, in The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement:
- In the arrangement, of course, I should expect to see every hardy tree which could be collected in any part of the globe; and I even anticipate revelling in quercetums, fraxinetums, salicetums, pinetums, aceretums, &c.
Anagrams
Latin
Alternative forms
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | salicētum | salicēta |
Genitive | salicētī | salicētōrum |
Dative | salicētō | salicētīs |
Accusative | salicētum | salicēta |
Ablative | salicētō | salicētīs |
Vocative | salicētum | salicēta |
Descendants
References
- “salicetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- salicetum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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