querceus

Latin

Etymology

From quercus (“oak”) +‎ -eus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷer.ke.us/, [ˈkʷɛrkeʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkwer.t͡ʃe.us/, [ˈkwɛrt͡ʃeus]

Adjective

querceus (feminine quercea, neuter querceum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (post-Augustan) of oak
   1. made of oak leaves
      • c. 117 CE, Tacitus, Annales 2.83.4:

        Honores ut quis amore in Germanicum aut ingenio validus reperti decretique: ut nomen eius Saliari carmine caneretur; sedes curules sacerdotum Augustalium locis superque eas querceae coronae statuerentur; ludos circensis eburna effigies praeiret neve quis flamen aut augur in locum Germanici nisi gentis Iuliae crearetur.

      • 121 CE, Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars Vita Gai 19:

        Per hunc pontem ultro citro commeauit biduo continenti, primo die phalerato equo insignisque quercea corona et caetra et gladio aureaque chlamyde, postridie quadrigario habitu curriculoque biiugi famosorum equorum, prae se ferens Dareum puerum ex Parthorum obsidibus, comitante praetorianorum agmine et in essedis cohorte amicorum.

   2. oaken

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	querceus	quercea	querceum		querceī	querceae	quercea
genitive	querceī	querceae	querceī		querceōrum	querceārum	querceōrum
dative	querceō	querceae	querceō		querceīs
accusative	querceum	querceam	querceum		querceōs	querceās	quercea
ablative	querceō	querceā	querceō		querceīs
vocative	quercee	quercea	querceum		querceī	querceae	quercea

Descendants

• Italian: quercia

References

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