fruticetum

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin fruticetum. === Noun === fruticetum (plural fruticeta) A kind of arboretum featuring shrubs and bushes rather than trees. == Latin == === Etymology === frutex (“shrub, bush”) +‎ -ētum (“grove”) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [frʊ.tɪˈkeː.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [fru.tiˈt͡ʃɛː.tum] === Noun === fruticētum n (genitive fruticētī); second declension a grouping of shrubs or bushes, a thicket, covert ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== → English: fruticetum → Italian: fruticeto → Portuguese: fruticeto === References === “fruticetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “fruticetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “fruticetum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.