corylus

See also: Corylus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek κόρῠλος (kórulos). Indo-European cognates include Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”), Proto-Germanic *hasalaz (“hazel”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈko.ry.lus/, [ˈkɔ.rʏ.ɫʊs]

Noun

corylus f (genitive corylī); second declension

  1. a hazel or filbert shrub
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Eclogae (Book I, line 14-15)

    • hic inter densas corylos modo namque gemellos/spem gregis, a! silice in nuda conixa reliquit.
      for here in the hazel thicket just now dropping twins/ah, the flock's hope, on naked flint, she abandoned them.

Declension

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative corylus corylī
Genitive corylī corylōrum
Dative corylō corylīs
Accusative corylum corylōs
Ablative corylō corylīs
Vocative coryle corylī

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Translingual (taxonomic genus): Corylus

References
  • cŏrylus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • corylus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cŏry̆lus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 436/2
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