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fruticetum

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin fruticetum.

Noun

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fruticetum (plural fruticeta)

  1. A kind of arboretum featuring shrubs and bushes rather than trees.

Latin

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Etymology

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frutex (shrub, bush) +‎ -ētum (grove)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fruticētum n (genitive fruticētī); second declension

  1. a grouping of shrubs or bushes, a thicket, covert

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative fruticētum fruticēta
genitive fruticētī fruticētōrum
dative fruticētō fruticētīs
accusative fruticētum fruticēta
ablative fruticētō fruticētīs
vocative fruticētum fruticēta

Descendants

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  • Italian: fruticeto
  • Portuguese: fruticeto

References

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  • fruticetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fruticetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fruticetum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.