galbulus

English

Etymology

Latin galbulus (“cypress cone”).

Pronunciation

enPR: gälʹbjo͞olo͝os

Noun

galbulus (plural galbuli)

1. A fleshy seed-producing cone of junipers and cypresses

See also

• megastrobilus

References

• Hart, G.T. 2011. Plants in Literature and Life: a wide-ranging dictionary of botanical terms. FriesenPress, Victoria, Canada. xv, 465.

Latin

Etymology

From galbus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡal.bu.lus/, [ˈɡäɫ̪bʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡal.bu.lus/, [ˈɡälbulus]

Noun

galbulus m (genitive galbulī); second declension

1. The nut of the cypress tree

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	galbulus	galbulī
genitive	galbulī	galbulōrum
dative	galbulō	galbulīs
accusative	galbulum	galbulōs
ablative	galbulō	galbulīs
vocative	galbule	galbulī

References

• “galbulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• galbulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.