casnetum

Latin

Etymology

From Medieval Latin casnus (“oak tree”) +‎ -ētum (“plantation or grove”), from Vulgar Latin *cassanus, probably from Gaulish kassanos.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kasˈneː.tum/, [käs̠ˈneːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kasˈne.tum/, [käzˈnɛːt̪um]

Noun

casnētum n (genitive casnētī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a grove of oak trees

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	casnētum	casnēta
genitive	casnētī	casnētōrum
dative	casnētō	casnētīs
accusative	casnētum	casnēta
ablative	casnētō	casnētīs
vocative	casnētum	casnēta

Synonyms

• querquētum (Classical)

References

• Casnetum 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)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “casnetum”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 152/2