alaternus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin alaternus. Doublet of alatern. === Noun === alaternus (plural alaternuses or alaterni) Alternative form of alatern. === Anagrams === Arsenault == Latin == === Etymology === Unknown. The ending -(e)rnus suggests Etruscan or another substrate source; see the etymology at vīburnum. === Noun === alaternus f (genitive alaternī); second declension a shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “alaternus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “alaternus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938), “alaternus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 26