vaccinium

See also: Vaccinium

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

vaccinium (plural vacciniums)

  1. (botany) Any of the genus Vaccinium of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.

Latin

Etymology

From vaccīnus (“relating to cows”), or a corruption of Ancient Greek ὑάκινθος (huákinthos, “dark red, purple”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /wakˈkiː.ni.um/, [wakˈkiː.ni.ũ]

Noun

vaccīnium n (genitive vaccīniī); second declension

  1. the bilberry, blueberry, whortleberry

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vaccīnium vaccīnia
Genitive vaccīniī vaccīniōrum
Dative vaccīniō vaccīniīs
Accusative vaccīnium vaccīnia
Ablative vaccīniō vaccīniīs
Vocative vaccīnium vaccīnia

Descendants

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