hortus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *hortos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰórtos. Cognate with Oscan 𐌇𐌞𐌓𐌆 (húrz), Ancient Greek χόρτος (khórtos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈhor.tus/, [ˈhɔrt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈor.tus/, [ˈɔrt̪us]

Noun

hortus m (genitive hortī); second declension

1. garden

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	hortus	hortī
genitive	hortī	hortōrum
dative	hortō	hortīs
accusative	hortum	hortōs
ablative	hortō	hortīs
vocative	horte	hortī

Related terms

• cohors
• hortēnsis
• hortuālis
• hortulus

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: oltu, ortu, otu
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: ortu
  • Dalmatian: vart
  • Italian: orto
  • Sicilian: ortu
  • Venetan: orto, ort
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: ort
  • Romansch: üert, iert
• Gallo-Italian:
  • Piedmontese: òrt
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: hort, horta
  • Occitan: òrt, òrta
  • Old French: ort, hort, ortelon, ortel, ortage, ortelage, ortelain, ortellerie, orte
    • Middle French: hortailles, horteau, hortel, hortelage, hortelin, hortif, hortillon
      • French: hortillonnages, hortillon, hortelain (dialectal)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Galician: horto, horta
    • Portuguese: horto, horta
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: güertu
    • Leonese: guertu
    • Mirandese: huorta
  • Spanish: huerto, huerta
  • → Basque: ortu

References

• “hortus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hortus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "hortus", 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)
• hortus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to bring a stream of water through the garden: aquam ducere per hortum
    
• “hortus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “hortus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin