Talk:nemorous

Definition: help please

1. Is it a synonym of woody and/or ligneous?
2. Could someone please provide an example to help understanding the meaning? Kipmaster 12:16, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

1. I have seen in 6 dictionaries the following: woody, woodsy and wooded. Since those three only have one common definition rougly forrested, I would guess that, and use nemoral for "pertaining to trees". books.google only provides one example, "a [kind of] nemorous temple", which doesn't help, the temple may be made of wood or it may contain trees, so who knows. - TheDaveRoss 12:40, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

The reason it's complicated is that this word has hardly ever been used. The normal word is nemoral and even that is very rare. Almost all the Google Books hits seem to refer back to one specific quote... the meaning is not ‘ligneous’, it's ‘wooded’ (the Latin source doesn't mean ‘wood’ the material, it means a grove of trees). But you would only use this in very literary or poetic senses. Widsith 14:50, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Also, where did we get ‘dark’ and ‘shady’ from in the def? Says who? Any references? This word isn't in the sOED. Widsith 14:55, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

I fuond that information, but don't have my notes at hand. I'll see where it was that I found that tidbit -- I've got a number of lesser-known specialist books on words. --EncycloPetey 17:34, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

The definition given by "dict, die, net"

"Paradise itself was but a kind of nemorous temple" --Evelyn--Kisida 23:18, 5 September 2006 (UTC)