A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Garden: hortus,-i (s.m.II) q.v., abl. sg. horto; syn. of hortus: pomarium, viretum, viridarium; see -etum,-i (s.n.II); see bed, greenhouse, farm, field, orchard; park, plot of ground; see nursery (garden); see plantation; to do; -etum (see end below); ‘physic garden,’ see herbularis,-is (s.m./f. III);

- hortorum, of gardens.

- hortus,-i (s.m.II) olitorius (adj.A): kitchen garden.

- hortus siccus (adj.A), herbarium.

- Hortus Medicus, Physic Garden.

Arbustum,-i (s.n.II), abl. sg. arbusto: a place where trees are planted, an orchard, plantation, a vineyard planted with trees onto which the vines are trained: as opposed to by poles (Lewis & Short).

Caepetum,-i (s.n.II), abl. sg. caepeto; cepetum,-i (s.n.II), abl. sg. cepeto; c(a)epina,-ae (s.f.I), abl. sg. c(a)epina: onion-bed, a space for growing onions.

Floral clock: horologium (s.n.II) florae (gen.sg.), floral clock; see horologium,-ii (s.n.II).

Floralia,-ium (pl.n.III), abl.pl. floralibus: “flower gardens” (Glare).

Holerarium,-ii (s.n.II), abl.sg. holerario, vegetable garden, kitchen garden; see holus,-eris (s.n.III).

Hortulus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. hortulo: a little garden; in the plural, the garden-grounds.

Kitchen garden: hortus,-i (s.m.II) olitorius (adj.A), abl. sg. horto olitorio; see garden.

Novelletum,-i (s.n.II), abl. sg. novelleto; a place planted with young trees or vines, a nursery-garden, as in a novella,-ae (s.f.I), a newly-planted vine, a shoot, sucker.

Olerarium,-ii (s.n.II), abl.sg. olerario, a kitchen or vegetable garden; see oleraceus (adj.A); see olus,-eris (s.n.III).

Paradise, the homeland of the first human beings, the Garden of Eden; the abode of the blessed: paradisus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. paradiso.

Napina,-ae (s.f.I), abl. sg. napina: a turnip-bed.

Novelletum,-i (s.n.II), abl. sg. novelleto; a place planted with young trees or vines, a nursery-garden, as in a novella,-ae (s.f.I), a newly-planted vine, a shoot, sucker.

Ordo,-inis (s.m.III), abl.sg. ordine: a row (as of plants;

- ordo hyacinthaeus, abl.sg. ordine hyacinthaeo, a row of hyacinths.

Paradise, q.v., the Garden of Eden, exotic gardens, as of tropical countries: paradisus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. paradiso.

Paradisicola,-ae (s.c.I), abl. sg. paradisicola: a dweller in Paradise.

Plantarium,-ii (s.n.II), abl. sg. plantario: a nursery-garden, nursery.

Pleasure garden: viridarium,-ii (s.n.II), abl.sg. viridario; see park.

Pomarium,-ii (s.n.II), abl. sg. pomario: a fruit-garden, orchard.

Porrina,-ae (s.f.I): a leek bed, a bed of leeks.

Rosarium,-ii (s.n.II), abl. sg. rosario = Gk.rhodOnia (s.f.I), a rose-bed, garden of roses.

Seminarium,-ii (s.n.II), abl.sg. seminario: nursery, seed-plot, seed-bed; see bed-log: seminarium (s.n.II) ornamentale, ornamental nursery.

Sylvula,-ae (s.f.I), a plantation, q.v.

Ulmarium,-ii (s.n.II), abl. sg. ulmario: a plantation or nursery of elms.

Vineyard, a plantation of vines: vinea,-ae (s.f.I), abl.sg. vinea; vinetum,-i (s.n.II), abl.sg. vineto; arbustum,-i (s.n.II), abl.sg. arbusto.

Violarium,-ii (s.n.II), abl. sg. violario: a bank or bed of violets.

Viretum,-i (s.n.II), abl. sg. vireto: a garden or park, a place green with vegetation or foliage.

Viridarium,-ii (s.n.II): garden planted with trees, pleasure garden, flora.

Vitiarium,-ii (s.n.II), abl. sg. vitiario: a nursery for vines.

NOTE: cf. -etum,-i (s.n.II), q.v., an ending for an association of plants, in nature or on a farm or garden, e.g. oryzetum-i (s.n.II), a rice-paddy or field [> L. oryza,-ae (s.f.I), rice]:

- (Nymphaea caerulea) in oryzetis et canalibus Egypti inferioris (DeCandolle), in rice paddies and canals of lower Egypt.

Garden, small: a little garden: hortulus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. hortulo, q.v.; agellulus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. agellulo: a very small piece of ground, a tiny field or plot of land; agellus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. agello: a small piece of ground, a little field, plot of land; area,-ae (s.f.I), abl. sg. area, ‘ground, plot of ground;’ tabula,-ae (s.f.I), abl. sg. tabula,‘ a bed or plot of ground in a vineyard;’ see bed, garden; see ‘plot of ground;’ see field.