cerrus

Latin

Etymology

Pliny mentions it as unknown in Italy; Schuchardt explains it as borrowed from the Berber term for the oak at that time.

Pronunciation

Noun

cerrus f (genitive cerrī); second declension

  1. Turkey oak (tree, Quercus cerris)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cerrus cerrī
Genitive cerrī cerrōrum
Dative cerrō cerrīs
Accusative cerrum cerrōs
Ablative cerrō cerrīs
Vocative cerre cerrī

Descendants
  • Albanian: qarr
  • Aromanian: tser
  • Italian: cerro
  • Romanian: cer
  • Hungarian: cser

References
  • “cerrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cerrus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • cerrus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Genaust, Helmut (1996), “cerrus”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, page 143
  • Schuchardt, Hugo (1918) Die romanischen Lehnwörter im Berberischen (Sitzungsberichte der Wiener Akademie der Wissenschaften; 188, IVth treatise)‎ (in German), Wien: In Kommission bei Alfred Hölder, pages 18–19
  • Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938), “cerrus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 207
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