ornus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃s-. Cognate with Old English æsc (“ash tree; spear (poetic)”). See also English ash. Compare typologically Russian дуби́на (dubína) (< дуб (dub)). Also compare Ancient Greek δόρυ (dóru, “wood, tree, stem; spear shaft, spear, lance, pole”) (< Proto-Indo-European *dóru). Also compare ferrum (“iron; iron tool; sword; …”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɔr.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔr.nus] === Noun === ornus f (genitive ornī); second declension a mountain ash tree, rowan tree a lance made of the wood of an ash ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Dalmatian: uarno → French: orne (learned) Italian: orno, orniello Romanian: urm === References === “ornus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ornus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "ornus", 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) “ornus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.