surus

Latin

Etymology

Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“stick, pole”), the same root of Old English sweor (“pillar, column”).[1]

Noun

sūrus m (genitive sūrī); second declension

  1. A branch, a stake

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sūrus sūrī
Genitive sūrī sūrōrum
Dative sūrō sūrīs
Accusative sūrum sūrōs
Ablative sūrō sūrīs
Vocative sūre sūrī

References
  • “surus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • surus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • surus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “surus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 635
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