phragmites

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin phragmītēs, from Ancient Greek φραγμίτης (phragmítēs).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /fɹæɡˈmaɪtiːz/

Noun[edit]

phragmites (plural phragmites)

  1. Any of several perennial reeds, of the genus Phragmites, found in wetlands.

Anagrams[edit]

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ancient Greek φραγμίτης (phragmítēs).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

phragmītēs m (genitive phragmītis); third declension

  1. a kind of reed

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative phragmītēs phragmītēs
Genitive phragmītis phragmītium
Dative phragmītī phragmītibus
Accusative phragmītem phragmītēs
phragmītīs
Ablative phragmīte phragmītibus
Vocative phragmītēs phragmītēs

Descendants[edit]

  • English: phragmites
  • Translingual: Phragmites

References[edit]

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