ligustrum

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From Latin ligustrum (“privet”).

ligustrum (plural ligustrums)

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

From Ligus, Ligustia, older names for Liguria, from Ancient Greek Λίγυς (Lígus).^[1]

ligustrum n (genitive ligustrī); second declension

1. privet

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• “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)

From Latin ligustrum.

ligùstrum m inan (Cyrillic spelling лигу̀струм)

1. privet (Ligustrum vulgare)

   Synonyms: kàlina, zȉmolez

• “ligustrum”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025