oleaster

From Middle English oliaster, olyaster, from Latin oleaster.

• Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)

oleaster (plural oleasters)

1. A plant in the family Elaeagnaceae,
   1. especially, a plant in the genus Elaeagnus,
      1. especially, the type species Elaeagnus angustifolia.
2. Cultivated olive trees that have re-naturalized, sometimes treated as a species Olea oleaster, the wild olive.

• (Elaeagnus angustifolia): silverberry, Russian olive

• oil-tree

• oleaster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Elaeagnus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Elaeagnus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• Oleaster in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• areolets

From ole(a) (“olive tree”) + -aster.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔ.ɫeˈas.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [o.leˈas.ter]

oleaster m (genitive oleastrī); second declension

1. wild olive tree

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

• Italian: olivastro, ulivastro
  • → Albanian: ullastër, ullashtër
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: ullastre
• Sicilian: agghiastru
• Sardinian: ogiastru
• → English: oleaster
• → Italian: oleastro
• → Romanian: oleastru
• → Spanish: oleastro

• “oleaster”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “oleaster”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “oleaster”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.