ustilago

See also: Ustilago

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

ustilago (plural ustilagos or ustilagoes)

  1. Any of the genus Ustilago of smut fungi parasitic on grasses.
    • 1859, The Farmer's Magazine, page 524:
      It was generally believed, before the experiments made by M. Kuhn, but without any foundation, and upon simple conjecture, that the seminules or spores of the ustilagoes and uredoes of the cereals penetrate by the radicles of the plant in order to arrive, creeping by degrees, to the leaves and seeds of those vegetables.

See also

Latin

Etymology

From ustus.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /us.tiˈlaː.ɡoː/, [ʊs.tɪˈɫaː.ɡoː]

Noun

ustilāgō f (genitive ustilāginis); third declension

  1. A kind of wild thistle

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ustilāgō ustilāginēs
Genitive ustilāginis ustilāginum
Dative ustilāginī ustilāginibus
Accusative ustilāginem ustilāginēs
Ablative ustilāgine ustilāginibus
Vocative ustilāgō ustilāginēs

References
  • ustilago in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ustilago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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