boletus

See also: Boletus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bōlētus.

Noun

boletus (plural boletuses or boleti)

An edible mushroom of genus Boletus.

Synonyms

bolete, porcini, cep

Translations

a type of edible mushroom — see also porcini

Czech: hřib (cs) m
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Estonian: kivipuravik (et), puravik
Finnish: kivitatti (fi)
German: Dickröhrling m
Hungarian: vargánya (hu), tinóru (hu)
Lithuanian: baravykas m
Polish: borowik (pl) m
Russian: борови́к (ru) m (borovík)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вр̀га̄њ m

Latin: vr̀gānj (sh) m

Anagrams

Boulets

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βωλίτης (bōlítēs)

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [boːˈɫeː.tʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [boˈlɛː.t̪us]

Noun

bōlētus m (genitive bōlētī); second declension

porcini, an edible kind of mushroom (the most valued kind)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	bōlētus	bōlētī
genitive	bōlētī	bōlētōrum
dative	bōlētō	bōlētīs
accusative	bōlētum	bōlētōs
ablative	bōlētō	bōlētīs
vocative	bōlēte	bōlētī

Derived terms

bōlētāria

Descendants

Aromanian: bureati, buburec
Catalan: bolet
English: bolete, boletus
French: bolet
Italian: boleto
Romanian: burete
Spanish: boleto
→ Proto-West Germanic: *bulit (see there for further descendants)

See also

fungus

References

“boletus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“boletus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
boletus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.