querquetum

Latin

Alternative forms

• quercētum

Etymology

quercus (“oak-tree”) +‎ -ētum (“plantation or grove”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kʷerˈkʷeː.tum/, [kʷɛrˈkʷeːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwerˈkwe.tum/, [kwerˈkwɛːt̪um]

Noun

querquētum n (genitive querquētī); second declension

1. a wood, forest, or plantation of oak-trees

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	querquētum	querquēta
genitive	querquētī	querquētōrum
dative	querquētō	querquētīs
accusative	querquētum	querquēta
ablative	querquētō	querquētīs
vocative	querquētum	querquēta

Synonyms

• casnētum (Mediaeval)

Descendants

• Galician: Cercedo, Cercido, Cerqueda, Cerceda
• Italian: querceto

References

• “querquētum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “querquetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• querquetum 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)
• querquētum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,296/2.
• “querquētum” on page 1,547/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)