ligustrum

See also: Ligustrum

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin ligustrum (“privet”).

Noun

ligustrum (plural ligustrums)

1. Any of several shrubs, of the genus Ligustrum, widely used for hedges; privet

Latin

Etymology

From Ligus, Ligustia, older names for Liguria, from Ancient Greek Λίγυς (Lígus).

Noun

ligustrum n (genitive ligustrī); second declension

1. privet

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	ligustrum	ligustra
genitive	ligustrī	ligustrōrum
dative	ligustrō	ligustrīs
accusative	ligustrum	ligustra
ablative	ligustrō	ligustrīs
vocative	ligustrum	ligustra

Descendants

• English: ligustrum
• Greek: λιγούστρο n (ligoústro)
• Italian: ligustro
• Sicilian: lijistru
• Translingual: Ligustrum

References

• “ligustrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ligustrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ligustrum 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)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin ligustrum.

Noun

ligùstrum m (Cyrillic spelling лигу̀струм)

1. privet (Ligustrum vulgare)

   Synonyms: kàlina, zȉmolez

References

• “ligustrum”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024