ocrea

== English == === Alternative forms === ochrea === Etymology === From Latin ocrea (“greave, legging”). === Noun === ocrea (plural ocreas or ocreae) (botany) A sheath around a plant stem forming from the stipule of a leaf and extending above the point of insertion of the leaf. ==== Usage notes ==== A leaf sheath typically does not fully encase the stem, and may also form around an axillary organ such as a bud. ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Acero, Arceo, Corea == Latin == === Etymology === Cognate with mediocris, Ancient Greek ὄκρις (ókris, “prominence”) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈoː.kre.a], [ˈɔ.kre.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔː.kre.a] === Noun === ō̆crea f (genitive ō̆creae); first declension A greave or legging worn to protect the shin, especially by soldiers. ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ō̆creātus ==== Descendants ==== → English: ocrea → French: ocréa → Italian: ocrea → Spanish: ócrea → Irish: ocraidhe === References === “ocrea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ocrea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "ocrea", 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) “ocrea”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “ocrea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “ocrea”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin