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iuniperus

Latin

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Etymology

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Often connected to iūncus (“reed”). According to Brüch, after the form combrētum, the Latin expected form would be *iūniber, *iūnibrī. The form iūniperus, following him, is a pseudo-Latinism by Sabine speakers, who, themselves in the land of junipers as ancient relations and the terms for particular species catanum and herba Sabīna witness, have borrowed the original form from Umbrian, and knowing the Umbrian correspondence of br to pr and elision of vowels loaned the plant name in the shape iūniperus, iūniperī, in spite of the language of the Latium regularly exposing the nominative singular ending -erus only from old -esos while -er for old -ros.

Often connected to Old Norse einir (“juniper”), supposedly from a Proto-Germanic *(j)ainijaz of the same meaning, through a common Indo-European origin or wanderwort.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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iūniperus f (genitive iūniperī); second declension

  1. juniper-tree

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative iūniperus iūniperī
genitive iūniperī iūniperōrum
dative iūniperō iūniperīs
accusative iūniperum iūniperōs
ablative iūniperō iūniperīs
vocative iūnipere iūniperī

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Descendants

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Reflexes of the late variant ziniperus:

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