oleaster

English

Etymology

From Latin oleaster

Noun

oleaster (plural oleasters)

A plant in the family Elaeagnaceae,
1. especially, a plant in the genus Elaeagnus,
  1. especially, the species Elaeagnus angustifolia.
Cultivated olive trees that have re-naturalized, sometimes treated as a species Olea oleaster, the wild olive.

Synonyms

(Elaeagnus angustifolia): silverberry, Russian olive

See also

oil-tree

Anagrams

areolets

Latin

Etymology

From ole(a) (“olive tree”) +‎ -aster.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /o.leˈas.ter/, [ɔ.ɫɛˈas.tɛr]

Noun

oleaster m (genitive oleastrī); second declension

wild olive tree

Inflection

Second declension, nominative singular in -er.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	oleaster	oleastrī
Genitive	oleastrī	oleastrōrum
Dative	oleastrō	oleastrīs
Accusative	oleastrum	oleastrōs
Ablative	oleastrō	oleastrīs
Vocative	oleaster	oleastrī

Descendants

Italian: olivastro
- → Albanian: ullastër, ullashtër
Old Occitan:
- Catalan: ullastre
→ English: oleaster
→ Italian: oleastro
→ Spanish: oleastro

References

oleaster in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
oleaster in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
oleaster in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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