-etum

== Latin == === Alternative forms === -tum -ctum === Etymology === Rebracketing of -tum in nouns ending in -ē-tum; perhaps from veprētum (“a thicket of bramble”), from vepr-ē-s, or the early-attested olētum. The ease of attaching the vowel-initial suffix to any noun stem likely helped the suffix to supplant -tum. Compare other neuter suffixes that can form nouns representing locations, such as -ārium n, -īle n, -tōrium n (vs. masculine -ārius,-īlis, -tōrius). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈeː.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛː.tum] === Suffix === -ētum n (genitive -ētī); second declension (horticulture) used to form nouns from certain plant or tree names to denote a place where the species grows or is made to grow; grove, thicket, woods; orchard, plantation, -yard, garden ‎olea (“an olive”) + ‎-ētum → ‎olētum (“a olive-yard”) ‎rosa (“a rose”) + ‎-ētum → ‎rosētum (“a rose garden”) (by extension) extended to other places ‎saxum (“a rock”) + ‎-ētum → ‎saxētum (“a rocky-place”) ‎bōs (“a cow or bull”) + ‎-ētum → ‎būcētum (“a cow-pasture”) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: -et, -eda French: -aie Galician: -edo, -ido (place-names) Italian: -eto, -eta Portuguese: -edo Romanian: -et Sicilian: -itu, -ita (place-names) Spanish: -edo, -eda