farnus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Indo-European *bʰerHǵos (“birch”). Compare Sanskrit भूर्ज (bhūrjá, “Himalayan birch”) (Betula utilis), English birch and Latin fraxinus (“ash tree”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfar.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfar.nus] === Noun === farnus f (genitive farnī); second declension kind of oak ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Italian: farnia === References === “farnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "farnus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)