virectum

== Latin == === Alternative forms === virētum === Etymology === From vireō (“to be green, verdant”) +‎ -tum (suffix forming nouns for stands of vegetation). The -c- would be inserted by analogy to forms like frutectum (“thicket, bush”), cārectum (“reed bed”) that are derived from noun stems ending in /k/. === Noun === virectum n (genitive virectī); second declension greensward ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). === References === “virectum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "virectum", 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) “virectum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.