Padus

== Translingual == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Proper noun === Padus f Certain shrubs and trees with cherry-like fruit, including bird cherries, false bird cherries, cherry laurels, and similar shrubs and tree of former genus Pygaeum (archaic) A taxonomic genus within the family Rosaceae – now a subgenus of Prunus. A taxonomic subgenus within the family Rosaceae – Prunus subg. Padus. ==== Hypernyms ==== (subgenus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, fabids – clades; Rosales – order; Rosaceae – family; Amygdaloideae – subfamily; Amygdaleae – tribe; Prunus – genus ==== Hyponyms ==== (subgenus): For species see Prunus subg. Padus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies === References === Padus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Prunus subg. Padus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Prunus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons Padus at Plants of the World Online == English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin Padus. === Proper noun === the Padus Synonym of the Po ==== Related terms ==== == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Ligurian Bodincus, Bodencus (“bottomless”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn. The name could have been borrowed through Ancient Greek Πάδος (Pádos). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpa.dʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpaː.dus] === Proper noun === Padus m sg (genitive Padī); second declension the River Po ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. ==== Synonyms ==== (the River Po): Ēridanus (mythology, poetry) ==== Derived terms ==== Padānus Padāneus ==== Descendants ==== → English: Padus (learned) >? Italian: Po (from Gallo-Italic?)→ English: Po→ French: Pô→ German: Po Middle French: PadeFrench: Pade === References === “Padus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly “Pădus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Padus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “Pădus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,101/2. “Padus¹” on page 1,281/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)