ornus

See also: õrnus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃s-. Cognate with Old English æsc (“ash tree; spear (poetic)”). See also English ash.

Compare typologically Russian дуби́на (dubína) (< дуб (dub)). Also compre Ancient Greek δόρυ (dóru, “wood, tree, stem; spear shaft, spear, lance, pole”) (< Proto-Indo-European *dóru).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔr.nʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔr.nus]

Noun

ornus f (genitive ornī); second declension

a mountain ash tree, rowan tree
a lance made of the wood of an ash

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ornus	ornī
genitive	ornī	ornōrum
dative	ornō	ornīs
accusative	ornum	ornōs
ablative	ornō	ornīs
vocative	orne	ornī

Descendants

Dalmatian: uarno
→ French: orne (learned)
Italian: orno, orniello
Romanian: urm

References

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