querceus

Latin

Etymology

From quercus (“oak”) +‎ -eus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

querceus (feminine quercea, neuter querceum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. (post-Augustan) of oak
    1. made of oak leaves
      • c. 117 CE, Tacitus, Annales 2.83.4:
        Honores ut quis amore in Germanicum aut ingenio validus reperti decretique: ut nomen eius Saliari carmine caneretur; sedes curules sacerdotum Augustalium locis superque eas querceae coronae statuerentur; ludos circensis eburna effigies praeiret neve quis flamen aut augur in locum Germanici nisi gentis Iuliae crearetur.
      • 121 CE, Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars Vita Gai 19:
        Per hunc pontem ultro citro commeauit biduo continenti, primo die phalerato equo insignisque quercea corona et caetra et gladio aureaque chlamyde, postridie quadrigario habitu curriculoque biiugi famosorum equorum, prae se ferens Dareum puerum ex Parthorum obsidibus, comitante praetorianorum agmine et in essedis cohorte amicorum.
    2. oaken

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative querceus quercea querceum querceī querceae quercea
Genitive querceī querceae querceī querceōrum querceārum querceōrum
Dative querceō querceō querceīs
Accusative querceum querceam querceum querceōs querceās quercea
Ablative querceō querceā querceō querceīs
Vocative quercee quercea querceum querceī querceae quercea

Descendants
  • Italian: quercia

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