cerrus

Latin

Etymology

Pliny mentions it as unknown in Italy; Schuchardt explains it as borrowed from the Berber term for the oak at that time.

Pronunciation

Noun

cerrus f (genitive cerrī); second declension

  1. Turkey oak (tree, Quercus cerris)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative cerrus cerrī
genitive cerrī cerrōrum
dative cerrō cerrīs
accusative cerrum cerrōs
ablative cerrō cerrīs
vocative cerre cerrī

Descendants

  • Albanian: qarr
  • Aromanian: tser
  • Italian: cerro
  • Romanian: cer
  • Hungarian: cser

References

  • cerrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "cerrus", 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)
  • cerrus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Genaust, Helmut (1996), “cerrus”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, page 143
  • Schuchardt, Hugo (1918), Die romanischen Lehnwörter im Berberischen (Sitzungsberichte der Wiener Akademie der Wissenschaften; 188, IVth treatise)‎[1] (in German), Wien: In Kommission bei Alfred Hölder, pages 18–19
  • Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938), “cerrus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 207