Padus

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Padus f

1. 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

• Padus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Prunus subg. Padus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Prunus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Padus at Plants of the World Online

Learned borrowing from Latin Padus.

the Padus

1. Synonym of the Po

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpa.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.dus]

Padus m sg (genitive Padī); second declension

1. the River Po

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• (the River Po): Ēridanus (mythology, poetry)

• Padānus
• Padāneus

• → English: Padus (learned)
• >? Italian: Po (from Gallo-Italic?)
  • → English: Po
  • → French: Pô
  • → German: Po
• Middle French: Pade
  • French: Pade

• “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)