alicastrum

== Latin == === Etymology === From alic(a) (“wheat”) +‎ -astrum. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.lɪˈkas.trũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.liˈkas.trum] === Noun === alicastrum n (genitive alicastrī); second declension early-ripening variety of emmer (“wheat”). summer spelt. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). === References === “alicastrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “alicastrum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.