combretum

See also: Combretum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Combretum, from Latin combrētum.

Noun

combretum (plural combretums)

  1. Any of a number of tropical trees and shrubs in the genus Combretum.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

Unknown, with -ētum (plant collective).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

combrētum n (genitive combrētī); second declension

  1. a kind of rush (perhaps Luzula sylvatica, syns. Juncus sylvaticus, Juncus maximus)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative combrētum combrēta
genitive combrētī combrētōrum
dative combrētō combrētīs
accusative combrētum combrēta
ablative combrētō combrētīs
vocative combrētum combrēta

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “combrētum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 128
  • “combretum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • combretum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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