vaccinium

Borrowed from translingual Vaccinium, itself borrowed from Latin vaccīnium.

vaccinium (plural vacciniums)

1. (botany) Any of the genus Vaccinium of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.

From vaccīnus (“relating to cows”), or a corruption of Ancient Greek ὑάκινθος (huákinthos, “dark red, purple”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wakˈkiː.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vatˈt͡ʃiː.ni.um]

vaccīnium n (genitive vaccīniī or vaccīnī); second declension

1. bilberry, blueberry, whortleberry

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• → Translingual: Vaccinium
  • → English: vaccinium

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