cauliflorus
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Latin
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Etymology
[edit]New Latin; from caulis (“stem”) + flōs (“flower”), changed to first and second declension.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kau̯.liˈfloː.rus/, [käu̯lʲɪˈfɫ̪oːrʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kau̯.liˈflo.rus/, [käu̯liˈflɔːrus]
Adjective
[edit]cauliflōrus (feminine cauliflōra, neuter cauliflōrum); first/second-declension adjective
Usage notes
[edit]- Used almost exclusively as a taxonomic epithet and thus not normally in inflected forms other than the nominative singular.
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | cauliflōrus | cauliflōra | cauliflōrum | cauliflōrī | cauliflōrae | cauliflōra | |
| Genitive | cauliflōrī | cauliflōrae | cauliflōrī | cauliflōrōrum | cauliflōrārum | cauliflōrōrum | |
| Dative | cauliflōrō | cauliflōrō | cauliflōrīs | ||||
| Accusative | cauliflōrum | cauliflōram | cauliflōrum | cauliflōrōs | cauliflōrās | cauliflōra | |
| Ablative | cauliflōrō | cauliflōrā | cauliflōrō | cauliflōrīs | |||
| Vocative | cauliflōre | cauliflōra | cauliflōrum | cauliflōrī | cauliflōrae | cauliflōra | |