oleaster

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English oliaster, olyaster, from Latin oleaster. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ) === Noun === oleaster (plural oleasters) A plant in the family Elaeagnaceae, especially, a plant in the genus Elaeagnus, especially, the type species Elaeagnus angustifolia. Cultivated olive trees that have re-naturalized, sometimes treated as a species Olea oleaster, the wild olive. ==== Synonyms ==== (Elaeagnus angustifolia): silverberry, Russian olive ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== oil-tree === References === oleaster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Elaeagnus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Elaeagnus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons === Further reading === Oleaster in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911) === Anagrams === areolets == Latin == === Etymology === From ole(a) (“olive tree”) +‎ -aster. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔ.ɫeˈas.tɛr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [o.leˈas.ter] === Noun === oleaster m (genitive oleastrī); second declension wild olive tree ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er). ==== Descendants ==== Italian: olivastro, ulivastro→ Albanian: ullastër, ullashtër Old Occitan: Catalan: ullastre Sicilian: agghiastru Sardinian: ogiastru → English: oleaster → Italian: oleastro → Romanian: oleastru → Spanish: oleastro === References === “oleaster”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “oleaster”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “oleaster”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.