pinetum
English
    
    
Noun
    
pinetum (plural pineta or pinetums)
- An arboretum, or part of an arboretum or garden, devoted to growing conifers
-  1838 February 1, “On the Formation of a Public Botanic Garden”, in The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural & Domestic Improvement:- In the arrangement, of course, I should expect to see every hardy tree which could be collected in any part of the globe; and I even anticipate revelling in quercetums, fraxinetums, salicetums, pinetums, aceretums, &c.
 
 
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Latin
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- (Classical) IPA(key): /piːˈneː.tum/, [piːˈneːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /piˈne.tum/, [piˈnɛːt̪um]
Declension
    
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural | 
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pīnētum | pīnēta | 
| Genitive | pīnētī | pīnētōrum | 
| Dative | pīnētō | pīnētīs | 
| Accusative | pīnētum | pīnēta | 
| Ablative | pīnētō | pīnētīs | 
| Vocative | pīnētum | pīnēta | 
References
    
- “pinetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pinetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pinetum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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