Padus

Translingual

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Padus f

Certain shrubs and trees with cherry-like fruit, including bird cherries, false bird cherries, cherry laurels, and similar shrubs and tree of former genus Pygaeum
1. (archaic) A taxonomic genus within the family Rosaceae – now a subgenus of Prunus.
2. A taxonomic subgenus within the family Rosaceae – Prunus subg. Padus.

(subgenus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, fabids – clades; Rosales – order; Rosaceae - family; Amygdaloideae - subfamily; Amygdaleae - tribe; Prunus - genus

(subgenus): For species see Prunus subg. Padus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

The Po along the city of Turin.

From Ancient Ligurian Bodincus, Bodencus (“bottomless”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn. The name could have been borrowed through Ancient Greek Πάδος (Pádos).[1]

Padus m sg (genitive Padī); second declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

“Padus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
“Pădus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Padus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Pădus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,101/2.
“Padus¹” on page 1,281/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

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