English
fruticetum
Fruticetum comes from Latin fruticetum ‘a grouping of shrubs or bushes, a thicket,…’, and goes back to frutex.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfrutex‘shrub, bush’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfruticetum‘a grouping of shrubs or bushes, a thicket, covert’
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfrutex‘shrub, bush’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEfruticetum‘a grouping of shrubs or bushes, a thicket, covert’
- Englishtodaysame form
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- ‘to boil, brew, sprout?’
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Today it means
noun A kind of arboretum featuring shrubs and bushes rather than trees.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin frutex / fruticetum