Translingual

Proper noun

Tilia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Malvaceae – trees, including the lindens, the basswoods and the lime tree.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids II - clades; Malvales - order; Malvaceae - family; Tilioideae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Tilia europaea - type species; Tilia americana - selected other species
  • Tilia sect. Astrophilyra, Tilia sect. Endochrysea, Tilia sect. Henryanae, Tilia sect. Tilia - sections

English

Noun

tilia ‎(plural tilias)

1. Any tree of the linden genus Tilia.

Latin

Etymology

Probably a borrowing from a Mediterranean substrate, found also in Ancient Greek πτελέα ‎(pteléa, “elm”) and Old Armenian թեղի ‎(tʿełi).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈti.li.a/

Noun

tilia f ‎(genitive tiliae); first declension

1. linden or lime tree
2. the inner bark of the linden or lime tree

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• tiliāceus
• tiliāgineus
• tiliāris

Descendants

References

• tilia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tilia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• TILIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tilia”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.