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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈker.rus/, [ˈkɛrːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃer.rus/, [ˈt͡ʃɛrːus]

Noun

cerrus f (genitive cerrī); second declension

1. Turkey oak (tree, Quercus cerris)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	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), 3^rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, page 143
• Schuchardt, Hugo (1918) Die romanischen Lehnwörter im Berberischen (Sitzungsberichte der Wiener Akademie der Wissenschaften; 188, IV^th treatise)‎^[1] (in German), Wien: In Kommission bei Alfred Hölder, pages 18–19
• Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “cerrus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 207