rhamnus

See also: Rhamnus

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

rhamnus (plural rhamnuses)

1. (botany) Any of the plants in the genus Rhamnus; a buckthorn.

Latin

Etymology

Alteration of rhamnos (“buckthorn”), from Ancient Greek ῥάμνος (rhámnos), influenced by Rhamnus f (“Nemesis”)

Noun

rhamnus f (genitive rhamnī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) buckthorn

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	rhamnus	rhamnī
genitive	rhamnī	rhamnōrum
dative	rhamnō	rhamnīs
accusative	rhamnum	rhamnōs
ablative	rhamnō	rhamnīs
vocative	rhamne	rhamnī

Descendants

• → Welsh: rhafn, rhafnwydd (semi-learned)

References

• rhamnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “rhamnus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “rhamnus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly