myrtetum

Latin myrtētum

myrtetum (plural myrteta)

1. A myrtle grove.
   • 1971, Charlotte F. Otten, The Herbal Tradition in the Poetry of John Milton, page 118:

     While in today's English gardens the rhododendron is more frequently found than the myrtle, The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew already at the time of the herbalist William Turner (c. 1510-1568) included a myrtetum […]

• murtētum

myrtus (“myrtle”) +‎ -etum (“grove”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /myrˈteː.tum/, [mʏrˈt̪eːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mirˈte.tum/, [mirˈt̪ɛːt̪um]

myrtētum n (genitive myrtētī); second declension

1. myrtle grove

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “myrtetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• myrtetum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.