quercus – Latin noun declension

Noun: quercus
Hyphenation:

Gender: Feminine Declension: Second, Fourth

Nominative

Singular	quercus
Plural	quercūs; quercī

Genitive

Singular	quercūs; quercī
Plural	quercuum; quercōrum

Dative

Singular	quercuī; quercō
Plural	quercubus; quercibus; quercīs

Accusative

Singular	quercum
Plural	quercūs; quercōs

Ablative

Singular	quercū; quercō
Plural	quercubus; quercibus; quercīs

Vocative

Singular	quercus; querce
Plural	quercūs; quercī

Sample Sentences

Ac velut annōsō validam cum rōbore quercum
Alpīnī Boreae nunc hinc nunc flātibus illinc
ēruere inter sē certant; [...]. (And just as a mighty oak with strength in age, when Alpine Northwinds — by [their] blows, now [to] this side, now that — compete among themselves to uproot [it]; ….) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.441–443]

Nouns inflected like quercus

quercus,

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kʷerkus, assimilated from Proto-Indo-European *pérkus ~ *pr̥kʷéu- (“oak”). Compare Old Norse fýri (as in fýriskógr (“pine-wood”). See also English fir. See: Old Norse Nouns 'fýri', English Nouns 'fir'.

Verbs referencing "quercus"

English Nouns fir, Swedish Nouns fura, Spanish Nouns alcornoque, English Nouns quercitannin, Galician Nouns cerquiño, Galician Nouns cerqueiro.